Schoolteachers in Italy earn less than in many other EU countries. A new petition hopes to raise public awareness before key negotiations about pay rises for state functionaries with the government in September 2017. The call to action on online activism site “change.org” argues that Italian primary and secondary school teachers are employed under "precarious" temporary contracts and have worse working conditions than their EU equivalents.
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[close]The growth in teleworking seen during the Covid-19 crisis has been skewed towards highly paid occupations and white-collar employment, raising concerns about the emergence of a new divide between those who can work remotely and those who cannot. Nonetheless, enforced closures of economic activities due to confinement measures resulted in many new teleworkers amongst low and mid-level clerical and administrative workers who previously had limited access to this working arrangement.
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[close]The Finance Ministry intends to remove the unemployment pathway to early retirement to help improve the employment rate. The Ministry also proposed other measures to make it more difficult for people to leave the workforce before reaching pension age.
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[close]The Statistical Service of the Republic of Cyprus reported that unemployment stood at 6.8% during the second quarter of 2020, compared to 6.5% in the corresponding quarter of 2019,. According to the results of the Labour Force Survey, the labour force in the 2nd quarter of 2020 amounted to 448,466 persons or 62.2% of the population – males 68.6% and females 56.3% – in comparison to 62.8%, in the corresponding quarter of 2019.
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[close]According to the Services and Energy Union of the national trade union federation OGBL, 10 employees of NV Getronics will be asked to resign. They will then be offered a financial package that is about half of what they would be entitled to in case of dismissals. Furthermore, remaining employees will have to accept a reduction in their salary of 5 to 15%.
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[close]People who are employed in Denmark can look forward to a windfall in October this year when so-called ‘frozen holiday money’ can be paid out. The payments were approved earlier this year as part of a larger government economic stimulus package in response to the coronavirus crisis.
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[close]About 200 jobs could be cut in reductions planned for the Bascharage and Dudelange plants operated by glass producer Guardian. The US-based glass maker wants to negotiate over a social plan for the redundant employees. At the two locations there are currently 453 people employed who produce glass that can be used in construction, interiors, and automobile windshields
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[close]The Federal Statistics Office reported that gross monthly earnings for full- and part-time workers fell by 2.2% on average in the second quarter from a year ago, due mainly to the wide use of short-time work during the coronavirus crisis,. The hardest-hit sectors were hotels and hospitality, the automotive sector and tour operators.
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[close]Almost 6,000 more people found a new job in July compared to the same month last year, despite the coronavirus crunch throwing record numbers of workers into unemployment. However, 478,081 people were registered as unemployed with Sweden's employment agency Arbetsförmedlingen, which is around 134,000 more than the same month last year.
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[close]The government has asked the European Union to tap its SURE unemployment scheme for €28.5 billion after extending furlough support to help the economy withstand the hit from the COVID-19 crisis. On 7 August the government approved a new stimulus package worth €25 billion, setting aside roughly half of that sum to support employment. The government extended temporary layoff schemes for up to 18 weeks, setting conditions and requiring firms not to cut jobs to qualify for state aid.
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