Tata Steel is trying to hive off its historic liabilities before merging its European steel operations with German company ThyssenKrupp. Tata Steel could pay more than £500m into its UK pension scheme as part of a deal with regulators that involves the Pension Protection Fund taking a stake in the business. The Indian-owned company needs to find a solution to its pension scheme to secure the future of its UK operations, which employs 8,000 workers and includes the Port Talbot steelworks in south Wales.
English: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/apr/20/tata-steel-offers-520m-pensions ...
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A legislative amendment under debate in the National Assembly could usher in drastic changes to labour practices and place further control over working hours into the hands of employers. If the amendments are passed, employers would be granted the ability to manipulate the working and non-working hours of workers at will; it would be possible to grant only a single off-day per week for seasonal workers and workers on multiple shifts, and still be in compliance with labour laws. It would also essentially eliminate the need for employers to pay extra for overtime work, as the overtime hours could simply be offset later by off-time.
English: http://budapestbeacon.com/public-policy/slave-labor-law-bring-radical-changes ...
The government plans the implementation of a one-off increase in pensions in August and to eliminate penalties for those who retire at 60 and who began working at 14. The measures to boost pensions and for the ‘protection’ of those who have contributed to social security for an especially long period were announced in parliament during a fortnightly debate.
English: http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/early-retirement-penalty ...
Unemployment rate reduced to 8.3% in March 2017, according to the State Employment Agency's data. At the beginning of March, 79,152 unemployed persons had registered with the Employment Agency, while at the end of the month there were 76,431 unemployed persons. At the end of March 2016, the unemployment rate for Latvia was 9.1%). On the other hand the country still had the highest youth unemployment among the three Baltic states in 2016, according to Eurostat information. The Eurostat figures show that 17.3% of young people aged 15-24 years were jobless in Latvia in 2016, growing by 1 percentage point from 2015. In the meantime, shortage of labour in several industries is signalled. The four industries most affected are construction, information and communications technology, wood processing, and mechanical engineering.
English: http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/analytics ...
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The Hotel and Restaurant Workers' Union HRF signed a 3-year national agreement which meets their key bargaining demands less than 12 hours before a national strike was to begin. HRF received strong national and international support in the run-up deadline. Affiliates of the confederation LO pledged active support to the hotel workers, including stopping deliveries and other concrete solidarity actions in the event of a strike. The agreement provides for a SEK 1,650 (172 euro) monthly increase for full-time workers over a 3-year period; a 6.5% increase for overtime; and a significant increase for the lowest-paid which meets or exceeds the increases for low-wage workers established in other sectoral agreements.
English: http://www.iuf.org/w ...
To encourage workers not to use too many sick days, Amazon has established a controversial policy that relies on peer pressure to encourage better employee attendance. The policy gives workers a bonus of between 6% and 10% of their monthly salary if they have used few paid sick days that month. But workers can only reach the top bonus level if co-workers on their teams also have good attendance records.
English: https://qz.com/962717/amazon-pays-german-warehouse-workers-bonuses-partly ...
Younger Europeans are likely to have fewer opportunities for upward social mobility than preceding generations. Most common indicators to measure social mobility include either income or occupation. Social mobility in Europe seems to have stagnated with opportunities for upward social mobility only increasing in a minority of EU countries for all age groups; in some Member States there is even evidence of decline in social mobility. These are the main findings of Eurofound’s report Social mobility in the EU, which is the first of its kind to look at the issue throughout the European Union.
English: https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/news/news-articles/diverging-trends ...
The report: https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/sites/default ...
Poultry and rabbit slaughtering and process workers responded to an employer attack on their employment security with a two day national strike on April 11 and 12. Negotiations to renew the national sector collective agreement affecting 24,000 workers represented by the trade unions CC.OO and UGT deadlocked over employer demands for increased and more flexible working hours, the elimination of seniority, the cancellation of two consecutive rest days and a demand for greater flexibility to subcontract and outsource work. The strike action brought the employers back to the bargaining table. The unions return to the bargaining table in a strong position to win improved employment security.
English: http://www.iuf.org/w ...
Trade union TÜMTİS is enmeshed in decade-long legal cases that threaten to erode the rights of all unions in the country. Fourteen Ankara Branch officials of the trade union received prison sentences ranging from 1.5 years to 6.5 years for the reason of recruiting new members. There have been a number of protests against the prison sentences handed down to the 14 TÜMTİS leaders. Labour, occupational and non-governmental organisations have criticised the sentence and expressed solidarity with the union.
English: http://tumtis.org/v2/2017/0414/news-from-tumtis/
https://www.equaltimes.org/tumtis-and-the-case-that-threatens ...
In a report - From ‘inadequate’ to ‘outstanding’: making the UK’s skills system world class - the CIPD, the professional body for HR and people development, shows that two decades of under-investment and failed policy on skills has contributed to the country lagging well behind its competitors in Europe and most of the OECD on at least four key measures, including literacy and numeracy, learning and development, and digital skills. The CIPD also notes that the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) that played an important role in providing strategic policy advice to government, based on the input of employers and trade unions was abolished in 2015 without any clear rationale being presented.
English: https://www.cipd.co.uk/about/media/press/170419-uk-skills-crisis
The report: https://www.cipd.co.uk/Images/from-inadequate-to-outstanding ...