The gross minimum wage will be differentiated based on education, according to the 2017-2020 governing program, published on the Chamber of Deputies’ website. The gross minimum wage will grow to RON 2,000 (440 euro) in 2018, RON 2,200 (483 euro) in 2019, and RON 2,400 (527 euro) in 2020. According to the governing program, the gross minimum wage for people with university studies will be higher, respectively RON 2,300 (505 euro) in 2018, RON 2,640 (580 euro) in 2019 and RON 3,000 (659 euro) in 2020. The gross minimum wage currently amounts to RON 1,450 (319 euro), after a RON 200 increase in February. It is now planned that the minimum wage will go up once a year, like in most European countries.
English: https://www.romania-insider.com/romanias-minimum-wage …
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Trade union 3F has created a special webpage that tackles social dumping practices. The union journal reports about one of the last case that are listed on this webpage. The industrial company Fipros A / S, which supplies ingredients for the food working industry, has been sentenced on 28 June in the Labour Court to a 1.8 million Danish Kroner (025 million euro) fine for the underpayment of Hungarian workers.
The webpage against social dumping: https://tema.3f.dk/stop-social-dumping
The report (Danish): https://www.fagbladet3f.dk/artikel/millionbod-til …
Following difficult negotiations with the management over the future of the Untertürkheim site, the Works Council at this major supplying site of Mercedes-Benz will not allow any overtime as of 1 July 2017. So far, the plant management insists that the planned battery factory should not be a subdivision of the Untertürkheim site, but instead should be located at Deutsche Accumotive GmbH. Accumotive GmbH is a subsidiary company of Daimler AG based in Kamenz (Saxony). This represents a serious threat to some 19,000 workers at Untertürkheim currently producing combustion engines, transmissions and axles for cars.
English: http://www.industriall-union.org/workers-at-daimler-in-germany-fight …
Turku shipyard, which is owned by the German firm Meyer, has a two-tier labour market, according to reports from regional authorities. The reports detail how some subcontracted workers at Meyer's Turku yard are paid less than the minimum wages outlined in collective agreements, their hours are not properly recorded, and there are shortcomings in arrangements for occupational health care, overtime payments and time off in lieu of overtime.
English: https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/reports_reveal_turku_shipyards_two-tier …
The (German owned) retail chain Globus will raise wages paid to all its employees in hypermarkets by an average of CZK 1,000 (38 euro) beginning 1 July 2017. The growth will apply also to benefits, such as the 13th wage or meal vouchers. The chain employs 4,900 people in hypermarkets.
English: http://praguemonitor.com/2017/06/28/globus-will-raise …
Workers at a Fiat plant in the town of Kragujevac are staging a work stoppage while remaining in their workplaces. Two one-hour warning strikes were held. Workers demanded an increase in the base wage from RSD 38,000 to 45,000 (approximately 315 to 370 euro), a reorganisation of production or hiring of new workers to reduce the load on workers who are now performing several operations or, in addition to their own, doing the work of others who are on sick or maternity leave.
English: http://www.b92.net/eng/news/business …
Metro drivers in Madrid started a five-day strike to coincide with the World Pride festival taking place in the capital. The workers are obliged under labour laws to provide at least 'minimum services', and in the case of the underground train network, this means two-thirds of connections will be running. Drivers are demanding changes to their working hours and practices, including finishing their shifts at the same station where they start. They are asking for 14 extra free days.
English: http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/29214/madrid-metro-drivers …
https://www.thelocal.es/20160610/madrid-metro-workers-call-8-days-of-strikes-in-june
The teachers' trade union (LCH) has called for a salary scale with regular increases to be enshrined in law. The union argues that the lack of wage guarantees could deter the brightest workers from the profession, and said kindergartens and primary schools - where pay is particularly low - were already suffering from staff shortages. A union survey made clear that an overwhelming majority of teachers rated the salary situation as bad or unsatisfactory. In real terms, teachers' pay has increased by 10.8 percent over the past 25 years.
English: https://www.thelocal.ch/20170627/swiss-teachers-call-for-higher-wages
Wage development report (in German): https://www.lch.ch/fileadmin/files/documents/Medienmitteilungen …
At Volkswagen SK, the first ever strike started in June 2017. Workers and trade unions rejected an offer to increase salaries by 4.5% in 2017 and by another 4.2% in 2018. The union was seeking a pay increase of 16% over the two years. After six days of strike action, the bargaining partners concluded a collective agreement with of pay increase in three parts of 14.2% up to August 2019, plus a €500 one-off bonus. The strike at Volkswagen SK received massive support. It is the longest strike recorded in the country and the first at the Bratislava-based car plant.
English: https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20568328/strike-ends-unions-sealed-agreement …
https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20563669/thousands-of-people-support-the-vw-strike.html
https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20563184/last-minute-talks-to-avert-strike-at-volkswagen …
In an ESPN Flash report the policy to develop the public works scheme that has been significantly extended since 2010 into the most important employment programme is criticised. The massive extension of public works has taken place at the expense of other, more efficient active labour market policies (ALMPs) such as training and mentoring. The scheme has been criticised for its low efficiency in reintegrating people into the primary labour market, its poor targeting (involving not only those in the most disadvantaged positions, from disadvantaged regions), and for the fact that it absorbs funds from other more efficient labour market tools and provides a lower income than the minimum wage.
English: https://www.google.de/url ..