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The period from January to March 1999 saw new collective agreements in a number of sectors which were not covered by 1998's main private sector bargaining round for the area covered by the Danish Federation of Trade Unions (Landsorganisationen i Danmark, LO) and the Danish Employers' Confederation

Early 1999 is due to see three main sets of collective bargaining in Denmark - covering the agriculture and forestry sector (including horticulture, the dairy industry and abattoirs), the public sector and the finance sector. The settlement in the first of these areas, concluded in January, has

The long-awaited Employment Relations Bill [1] was published on 28 January 1999 and has begun its passage through Parliament. The Bill will implement the package of individual, collective and "family-friendly" employment rights set out in the Labour government's/Fairness at work/ white paper issued

Bargaining in the main private sector area covered by the two largest confederations, the Danish Federation of Trade Unions (Landsorganisationen i Danmark, LO) and the Danish Employers' Confederation (Dansk Arbejdsgiverforening, DA), took place in spring 1998. It resulted in a major industrial

In late 1998, Luxembourg's National Action Plan for employment, negotiated on a tripartite basis in April 1998, was mired in controversy in the various professional chambers and within the framework of the legislative procedure in parliament. Despite the efforts of the minister of labour and

The traditional Swedish "full employment" model is coming under increasing threat from a number of sources. Higher levels of unemployment, structural changes in both the public and private sector, "downsizing" and a decrease in the numbers employed in the public sector have all had an influence on

During the 1980s, ill-health and occupational injuries increased in Sweden, and the social consequences of long term sickness absence came to be seen to be as equally as devastating as unemployment. Consequently, much thinking took place on finding ways to help sick or injured employees to return to

The recent increase in the rate of sickness absence among Norwegian employees has so far not led to any changes to the basic sickness benefit scheme, which provides employees with full pay compensation from the first day during periods of absence from work through sickness. The first 16 days of