Ryanair has signed the first non-pilot agreement after the company decided earlier to recognise trade unions for the first time in the company’s 32-year-old history. The agreement allows cabin crew to negotiate on issues such as pay. The agreement with the unions is paving the way for the Irish LCC to represent its directly employed cabin crew.
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[close]According to the National Statistics Institute (INS) the hourly labour costs, adjusted by the number of working days, recorded a 12.7% increase in the first quarter of 2018 versus the same period of last year. The highest increase in hourly pay rates was in the construction sector (19.1% up), The mining industry is the only one that recorded a 5% drop in hourly labour costs compared to 2017.
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[close]Trade union Sosyal-IS, that represents the majority of the contact centre workers, started negotiating a collective agreement at the local contact centre of German airline Lufthansa. The Lufthansa contact centre employs 268 workers and provides customer service to clients in Turkish, German and English. The union said that it wants to make sure that basic labour standards are respected in Lufthansa’s global supply chain.
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[close]Based on figures from Statistics Austria, the Chamber of Labour AK writes that every fifth hour of overtime is not paid and the employees have thus been withheld about one billion euro. 45 million working hours were not paid as overtime while they should have been. AK calls for a 100% penalty payment for unpaid overtime and states that it is a company’s responsibility to prove that claims of employees are wrong. Furthermore, they want systematically incorrect working time records to become a criminal offense.
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[close]Compared to 2017, the fastest real year-on-year wage growth since the Q1 2003 took place in the first quarter of 2018. The average gross monthly nominal wage per full-time equivalent (FTE) employee was Kč 30,265 (or 1162 euro), which was Kč 2,385 or 8.6% more than in the same period of 2017, according to the Statistical Office (ČSÚ). The increase in wages was also higher than inflation. In Q1 2018 consumer prices grew by 1.9%, so wages increased by 6.6% in real terms.
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[close]The social partners negotiated an agreement that can lead to a modification of the right to take solidarity action. The legislative proposal concluded by the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise and the trade union confederations LO, TCO and Saco starts from the presumption that employers who have signed a collective agreement should be able to trust that the peace obligation stands. Observers see the deal as a result of the usual pattern in the labour market: the negotiations take place in the shadow of the law. When the government ‘threatens’ to legislate on issues that are central to the social partners’ autonomy, they come to terms on a solution. The proposal was presented on 5th June to the Minister for Employment.
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[close]A TUC-report identifies five issues that young workers face in getting ahead at work. The report concludes that young people are getting a raw deal at work. Low pay, disproportionally affected by wage stagnation, insecure work, few opportunities to progress and a feeling that nothing will change often dominate their working lives. But this is through no fault of their own. Many of the barriers facing young workers are structural and outside of their control.
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[close]A Valencia court ruled against takeaway firm Deliveroo over labour rights it should have granted a former worker. The case is the first in the country to assess the delivery company’s business model. The court rules that the worker was used by Deliveroo as a ‘fake self-employed worker’ when he should have been a permanent employee. A report by the Labour Inspectorate of Valencia had stated that Deliveroo riders should be considered as employees because the company ‘controls the entire production process’, from the hours the employee has to work to the tasks he or she has to do.
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[close]On the 4 June, the parliament passed a Working Environment Act for better job security. The bill provides a clear definition of permanent employment, ensures the predictability of work and income by avoiding on-call contracts and limits the use of staffing agencies by restricting the use to companies bound by a nationwide collective agreement with a union. The Labour Inspection gets the legal authority to inspect companies and impose sanctions in the event of illegal staffing agency use.
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[close]Over one thousand tourism workers marched more than 60 kilometres from Marbella to Malaga on 22-25 May in support of their demand for a new collective agreement. The collective agreement expired in December 2017. Negotiations in 2017 didn’t lead to anything with both parties being miles apart from each other. The employer is insisting on weakening employment rights and increasing outsourcing and precarious employment. Unions on the other hand, are demanding pay increases. They say the sector generates high profits while wages and conditions have deteriorated dramatically for many workers. The unions are planning further action to bring employers back to the negotiating table.
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