College Lecturers have scored a (second) victory in their long running pay equalisation dispute with further education (FE) managers. After a campaign of strikes and demonstrations, involving thousands of lecturers that maintained nationwide support, Colleges Scotland agreed to honour a deal made to level lecturers up to the same pay across Scotland – an agreement initially reached over a year ago. This is a significant victory for EIS-FELA unions members and it means that the employers will move immediately to implement the March 2016 pay agreement.
English: https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/11008/two-row-lecturers-score ...
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Intensive talks between the EU, management and the government might lead to a rescue plan for the troubled bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena. However, the social consequences can be enormously. The sustainable business plan for the bank could imply up to 10,000 job cuts, nearly half the workforce. Besides, there is a serious debate over how much senior managers will be allowed to earn. In 2016, the chief executive of the lossmaking bank was awarded a salary of nearly 1.9 million euro, with bonuses on top of this sum. The trade unions declared that the plans for these giant redundancies will face a strong union opposition.
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Staff in Bus Éireann represented by the National Bus and Rail Union (NBRU) voted to accept Labour Court recommendations which include 10 per cent pay cuts for anyone on €60,000 or more and the closure of a maintenance garage in Dundalk. This decision ends the dispute which brought services at the State-owned transport company to a standstill for three weeks in March and April 2017. Workers at the company who are represented by the trade unions Siptu and Unite have already accepted the Labour Court recommendation.
English: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/ross-says-bus ...
The council of the Latvian Health and Social Care Workers' Trade Union (LVSADA) decided to call on healthcare workers to start a warning protest campaign in a way of refusing to work the so-called extended regular working hours or overtime in July 2017. As a result, around 100 nurses of the medical care personnel at the Children's Hospital in Riga will refuse working the so-called extended regular working hours or overtime for which they are not paid extra as part of a warning protest campaign. The same action was adopted by hospital staff before. The surgeons at the Children's Hospital stopped working the extended regular working hours already in February 2017.
English: http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/markets_and_companies ...
Municipal workers staged rallies outside city halls and other public buildings on the third of a four-day nationwide strike. The protest launched by union POE-OTA is aimed at putting pressure on the government to give permanent jobs to thousands of short-term workers after the Court of Auditors ruled that extending fixed-term contracts is a violation of the Constitution. The decision mainly affects cleaners, garbage collection and kindergarten workers who are often employed on successive fixed-term contracts to cover staff shortages, without enjoying the benefits of permanent status.
English: http://www.ekathimerini.com/218588/article/ekathimerini/news/municipal-workers ...
Workers at car component factory GM&S automobile in central France have occupied the plant and are threatening to strike in a protest against their managers as the site risks closure. They have told Renault and Peugeot that they are ready to strike if their demands are not met. Some 280 jobs at the site are under threat after the plant went into receivership back in December 2017. Workers accuse the two car giants of blocking negotiations for a takeover of the factory and of making too few orders. Negotiations with management over the last few weeks have failed and the closure of the factory is likely to be announced on May 2017.
English: https://www.rt.com/news/388032-french-workers-threaten-blow-factory/
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The battle about the future of the collective bargaining system continues with employers speaking out loud for a decentralisation. The chair of a lobby group for tech companies made a plea for more local pay bargaining. At present, most trade unions and employer groups agree industry-wide pay deals, which bind every firm in that sector to a minimum salary increase for every employee. As the economy picks up, expectations of higher wages after years of moderate pay deals evolve. However, the employers still talk about pay restraint and the finance minister said workers should wait for the positive situation to stabilise.
English: http://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/finance_minister_orpo_rebuffs_talk ...
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The labour force survey shows that the number of people in employment was 2.7% higher in the first quarter of 2017 than a year earlier. The share of the working age population in employment was 67.3%, which is the highest figure in recent decades. Statistics Estonia puts the unemployment rate at 5.6%, which is one percentage point lower than in the first quarter of last year. Low unemployment and a rise in the number of vacancies in the economy indicate that there is a shortage of labour in the labour market. Labour shortages are being eased by active participation in the labour market and by a positive migration balance. Besides, the number of people who were inactive in the labour market because of illness or injury fell throughout 2016 and at the start of 2017. The work ability reform that is being introduced makes the benefits received by those who are partially able to work dependent on their participation in the labour market.
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The metal workers unions reached an agreement on pay for the period 2017-2018. The deal includes an improvement of the purchase power of 1.1% (as of 1 July 2017). Special attention will be paid to the minimum wages and the pay of youngsters. The supplementary pensions will be uplifted with 0.1%. The deal also provides an improvement of the individual vocational training rights.
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The social partners have to adapt the labour market model to fit the sharing economy, driverless forklifts and other new labour market trends. If they don’t, others will, experts warn. The government and the social partners have approached the task by establishing a new body: ‘The Disruption Council’. The Council consists of the Prime Minister and a wide selection of government ministers, the social partners, business leaders and experts. The Council’s task is to find out how many new trends like digitalisation, robots and artificial intelligence can make the country richer and improve welfare – and at the same time find out how citizens can safely face a future where many traditional jobs will disappear.
English: http://www.nordiclabourjournal.org/i-fokus/in-focus-2017/sharing-economy-2017 ...