Union welcomes recruitment decision

The LO (blue collar) and TCO (white collar) trade union confederations have welcomed a ruling against the Swedish government's 2010 amendments to the country's posted worker legislation. The European Committee of Social Rights, part of the Council of Europe human rights organisation, found that the amendments infringed the European Social Charter on four counts and so the Swedish government now has to report back to the committee to explain how it intends to respond to the ruling. The confederations have called on the government to open talks on how to change the legislation. [Read more at >

Public services union Fórsa has welcome the government’s decision to accept an independent body’s recommendation for working time to be restored to pre-austerity levels for virtually all public servants from 1 July 2022. The additional working hours were imposed in July 2013, increasing the standard working time of civil and public servants to 39 hours for those who previously worked between 35 and 37 hours, and to 37 hours for those who previously worked 35 hours or less. The hours of those working 39 hours or more per week were unchanged. The independent body said it had taken account of the

The International Trade Union Confederation has welcomed the decision of the governing body of the International Labour Organisation to refer the question of the right to strike to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). There has been a a long-standing dispute between workers’ and employers’ representatives related to the right to strike and the extent to which it derives from the ILO conventions on the freedom of association (87) and the rights to organise and collective bargaining (98). The issue will now be addressed by the ICJ and the ITUC hopes this will unblock the impasse that has