The European Federation of Building and Woodworkers has launched a website that provides information in 24 languages. The website provides concise information on wages, working conditions and rights of construction workers for all the European Countries in all the European languages. Workers can find useful links and contacts of trade unions representatives ready to help and support them in case of need.
The site: https://www.constructionworkers.eu/en/be
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The OECD 2017 economic survey reports that the unemployment rate has fallen below 10%, its lowest level in seven years. The ageing population will pose a long-term challenge to the labour market. Other analysts speak of a turning point as more and more workers who once commuted to work abroad are able to find employment in Slovakia. Jobs are becoming more available and better paid, and, thus, the motivation to stay at home is bigger. Especially those from poorer regions, no longer have to choose between sitting at home (unemployed) or leaving abroad. The number of citizens working outside the country has fallen by 2.9 percent (4,600 people) in the first quarter of 2017, the second consecutive quarter that the rates have fallen.
English: http://www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-slovak-republic.htm
https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20553731/changing-trend-fewer-slovaks-commuting …
The government reached a deal with social partners to change the labour market regulation act and the labour inspection act. The 3rd piece of the package, changes to the employment relationship act, is expected to be agreed with social partners before the summer break. The bills state that an employment contract must be concluded for work that contains all elements of an employment relationship. Since this does not happen many times, the law stipulates that an inspector can order an employer to offer such a worker a contract within three days. Moreover, changes give the Inspectorate powers in case of non-payment of wages.
English: http://www.sloveniatimes.com/govt-adopts-two-pieces-of-three-piece-labour-reform
Eurofound’s European Jobs Monitor 2017 is dedicated to employment shifts and wage distribution. The monitor discusses the role that occupations play in structuring European wage inequality, and to what extent the observed patterns of job polarisation and upgrading have contributed to wage inequality trends in the last decade. One of the conclusions is that changes in the distribution of wages within occupations were much more consequential for overall wage inequality trends than changes in the wages paid by the different occupations or changes in the occupational structure.
English: https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/sites/default/files/ef_publication …
Bank employees falling under a collective agreement are to receive a €400 bonus. The bargaining partners agreed to introduce this additional bonus within the framework of the definition of a collective agreement for 2017 based on the 2014-16 model. The bonus, which must benefit all bank employees who are part of the collective agreement, will supplement the earlier agreement on the maintenance of the so-called June bonus. Trade unions OGBL, LCGB and Aleba will consult their membership before signing the 2017 collective agreement.
English: https://www.wort.lu/en/luxembourg/banks-new-bonus …
The Chamber of Deputies adopted on 7 June the public wage law that will improve the salaries in the public sector, as from 2018. All public employees will see a 25% wage growth starting 1 January 2018, whereas doctors and education personnel will get additional salary increases starting 1 March 2018. Teachers will receive a 20% wage growth whereas doctors and nurses will see a 100% increase in their salaries in a period ending in 2022.
English: https://www.romania-insider.com/romanias-govt-postpones-wage-increases …
Workers at the Episkopi desalination plant in Limassol will continue their indefinitely strike until their employer honours what had been agreed in 2016. The strike began on 30 May 2017 after negotiations between the workers’ unions – PEO and SEK – and the company operating the desalination plant on employment terms fell through. Some 20 workers at the Episkopi desalination plant had also gone on strike last year after they had said that their employer, Limassol Water Co Ltd, refused to grant them a collective agreement to safeguard their rights. The strike, that lasted a week, ended after an agreement was achieved with mediation by the labour ministry. But the unions said that the company has not honour that agreement.
English: http://cyprus-mail.com/2017/06/06/workers-strike-desalination-plant/
The government submitted to the trade union federations and employer organisations a report on the minimum wage development. There were some 730,000 workers earning the statutory minimum monthly salary in March 2017, up 88,900 or almost 14% compared to a year earlier, with the new total representing almost 23% of the whole workforce. The minimum salary was frozen at 485 euro between 2011 and October 2014. It increased in January 2017 to 557 euro.
English: http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/minimum-salary-applied-to-730000 …
The Institute of Employment Rights IER has published a very useful and updated overview of the history of the British labour legislation (1979-2017) with the aim to expose the impact of Tory-inspired legislation for trade unionists. The last example in a long row is the 2016 Trade Union Act that, according to IER, aims to make it extremely difficult or impossible for workers to engage in lawful industrial action, and to starve the trade unions and the labour movement of funds. The IER was created in 1989 as a thinktank to inform the debate around trade union rights and labour law by providing information, critical analysis, and policy ideas through a network of academics, researchers and lawyers.
English: http://www.ier.org.uk/resources/chronology-labour-law-1979-2017
The police trade union is asking government authorities for a bigger bonus for officers stationed in Catalonia. The Sindicato Profesional de Policía (SPP) says that the mood created by pro-independence activists in the north-eastern region is increasingly similar to the atmosphere of tension that the police still feel in the Basque Country and Navarre, two traditional hot-spots of pro-sovereignty sentiment. The police in these two regions has been earning an extra €600 a month for years. The union is demanding comparable economic incentives to prevent an exodus of members of the National Police force.
English: http://elpais.com/elpais/2017/06/02/inenglish …