Swiss food group Nestle plans to close its plant in Linz, by March 2018. The management said that employees’ representatives will be consulted on the consequences for the 127 members of the staff affected. Nestle currently employs around 1,000 workers at 16 sites in Austria. The factory in Linz specialised in products for its business to business division.
English: http://www.euronews.com/2017/03/07/nestle-to-close-linz-plant ...
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The Rothschild bank announced in January 2017 that it will move its IT department from the Grand Duchy to Switzerland, making approximately 15 employees redundant by April 2018. The company's apparent refusal of negotiating a social plan for the affected employees met criticism from the trade unions ALEBA and OGBL. In an internal note, the private bank informs its staff representatives that the affected employees do not have to leave the company by 2018 as there are a lot of career opportunities inside the Rothschild group.
English: http://www.wort.lu/en/business/switzerland-move-rothschild-luxembourg ...
The national postal service Postnord wants to reduce mail delivery to once per week and has announced it intends to let go of upwards of 4,000 employees – roughly 40 percent of its entire Danish staff – in a bid to streamline its flailing economy. Furthermore, the service wants politicians in Denmark and Sweden, the other co-owner of Postnord, to cough up 2.3 billion kroner to help bail them out and make the transition.
English: http://cphpost.dk/news/business/dire-postal-service-situation-thousands ...
The Resolution Foundation predicts in an analysis of the government budget that the country will face the worst decade of pay growth seen in 210 years. Average productivity growth between 2016 and 2021 is expected to be just 1.3 per cent, while nominal pay growth is revised down from the second quarter of 2018 onwards. When combined with rising inflation, this means that real earnings are set to actually fall later in 2017 and are only projected to return to their pre-crisis peak after the end of the forecast period in late 2022, 15 years after the pay squeeze began.
English: http://www.resolutionfoundation.org/app/uploads/2017/03/Spring-Budget ...
Iceland will be the first country in the world to make private and public employers prove they offer equal pay regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexuality or nationality. All employers with more than 25 staff members will be required to obtain certification to prove they give equal pay for work of equal value. The government announced the introduction to the parliament of this equality legislation on International Women's Day.
English: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-09/international-womens-day-iceland ...
Trade unions, students and parents have begun a strike to demand the conservative government an end to budget cuts in the sector and the abolition of the controversial education law. The strike was called by the Platform for the Public School, which brings together teachers, students and the Spanish Confederation of Associations of Parents and Mothers of Students (Ceapa).
English: http://www.plenglish.com/index ...
Spanish: http://politica.elpais.com/politica ...
The security staff of the Louvre went on strike in protest of the dysfunctional management of crowds flocking to the museum’s new Johannes Vermeer exhibition. Since opening last month, the exhibition has drawn record numbers of visitors, including more than 9,000 people on its first day. The crowds overwhelmed the museum’s new special exhibitions infrastructure and caused bottlenecks throughout the museum. In a letter to Louvre President, the secretary general of the trade union that represents many of the museum workers, said that Louvre security staff ‘are suffering constant physical and verbal aggression’. The letter places blame for the tense situation squarely on the Louvre administration, stating that ‘the mediocre management of fluctuating crowds and reservations’ is posing major psycho-social risks to workers.
English: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/arts/design/vermeer-louvre ...
The building workers' union has been both praised and criticised after its all-male board donned 'pussy hats' and posed for a picture in support of gender equality. The board of the union wanted to pay attention on International's Women's Day to all women in the construction industry and tell them how much they are needed and the respect they deserve because they dare to break gender roles. Far from all the reactions were negative. A group of female representatives for the Seko trade union in Gothenburg also posted their own picture of themselves in pussy hats with a nod to the building workers.
English: https://www.thelocal.se/jobs/article/why-these-swedish-trade-union-bosses ...
The partners in the European Social Dialogue reached an agreement on active ageing that was signed during a meeting of the Tripartite Social Summit. BusinessEurope, UEAPME, CEEP and the ETUC (and liaison committee EUROCADRES/CEC), had agreed in their 2015-2017 Work Programme to negotiate an autonomous framework agreement on active ageing and an inter-generational approach. The concluded framework agreement constitutes the contribution of the social partners to the EU policies (including non-discrimination legislation) and actions which have already been developed to support active ageing and the intergenerational approach. This agreement aims to build upon and enhance the existing measures and approaches that are in place in different contexts across Europe. It outlines tools/measures to be taken into account by social partners and/or HR managers in the context of national demographic and labour market realities, in accordance with national practices and procedures specific to management and labour.
English: https://www.etuc.org/press/eu-social-partners-sign-agreement-active-ageing ...
The agreement: https://www.etuc.org/sites/www.etuc.org/files/press-release ...
The government has confirmed the agreement reached after longstanding talks with the representative of the doctors and dentists about salaries. According to the scheme, settled between the Health minister and FIDES, the doctors' trade union, medical professionals could earn up to a fourth more of their base salary if they work more. The agreement came on time to avoid an announced strike, and the government has six months to submit to the Parliament the amended limitations to the Wage Act and ensure that state budget is allocated to support the measures, which the parties involved defined as a small health-system reform.
English: https://www.ansamed.info/nuova_europa/en/news/countries/slovenia ...