Trade unions in the public sector reached an agreement with a real pay rise for around 800,000 workers in regional government. The two-year pay deal will see a 2% rise this year backdated to 1 January with a minimum increase of 75 euro on monthly salaries. This is slightly more than the current inflation rate of 1.9% but well ahead of the 0.5% inflation recorded in 2016. Regional government workers will also get a 2.35% pay increase from 1 January 2018.
English: http://www.epsu.org/article/unions-deliver-pay-boost-public-sector-workers
The details of the agreement (in German): https://troed.verdi.de/tarifbeschaeftigte ...
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After completion of the relevant constitutional and legal formalities, the Social Security Agreement (SSA) between India and Portugal, signed in 2013, will come into force on 8th May 2017. It is meant to protect the interests of professionals, skilled workers working abroad. Provisions include such issues as helping workers avoid making double social security contributions, and facilitating easy exportability remittances/benefits.
English: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/india-portugal ...
The agreement: https://www.mea.gov.in/press-releases ...
A wage increase for nurses had been due in September 2016 under the Lansdowne Road Agreement but was brought forward to compensate public servants who did not benefit from a €50m Garda pay deal. Gardaí got an extra €4,000 added to their earnings due to the deal that was offered in a Labour Court recommendation to avoid an unprecedented strike in November 2016. The nurses' representative bodies are currently engaged with a Lansdowne Road Agreement Oversight Body and that was a condition for the wage increase being brought forward. Trade union SIPTU announced that health service support staff voted by 94% in favour of taking strike action, which will begin in selected hospitals on the same day as the nurses' industrial action, 7 March 2017.
English: http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/health/refusal-to-give-nurses-pay-rise ...
In the forefront of the presidential elections, the notion of a basic income has popped up in the socioeconomic debate. Journal ‘Le Monde’ has collected and published different positions in an overview. The positions vary from ‘unrealistic’ to the ‘ultimate’ solution for our future labour market. The twenty contributions come from outstanding scientists.
French: http://www.lemonde.fr/idees ...
The labour ministry stated that some recruitment agencies are illegally exchanging personal data, creating ‘blacklists’ of unwanted potential employees. Though the problem is one that is hard to investigate, the ministry is considering different ways of preventing such activities. The ministry had also received reports of some agencies discriminating against women.
English: http://www.thenews.pl/1/12/Artykul/294564,Polish-recruiting-agencies-illegally …
U.S. online retailer Amazon announced to open its fifth logistics centre in Poland this year. The company seeks to benefit from the country's relatively low wages and proximity to the German market. Observers see the opening of the new centre as a step to help insulate Amazon's business from the risk of frequent labour strikes in neighbouring Germany. Germany has seen many strikes with trade unions demanding a pay raise for the warehouse workers, in accordance with existing collective agreements.
English: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-poland ...
After nine weeks of dispute in the fishing industry, the longest fishermen’s strike in modern Iceland’s history has finally come to an end. Although only 52.4% voted by ballot to accept the new terms, the fleet is already putting to sea. While some concessions have been made, it remains unclear whether the crews have won full tax free status for food and other at-sea payments. The effects of the lengthy strike were felt across Europe and brought warnings from UK retailers voicing fears that some fish products could temporarily disappear from supermarket shelves.
English: http://www.fishupdate.com/iceland-back-to-sea-after-historic-strike/
The Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK) has announced that it will terminate 22 of its contracts. The termination of nearly two dozen union contracts concerns the working conditions of low-wage job-holders especially, such as security guards and movie theatre employees. This also concerns agreements on the role of the shop stewards and procedural agreements on co-decision procedures. The result is that on top of the ‘normal’ collective bargaining the sectoral unions also have to agree anew on these issues.
English: http://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/rinne_union_confederation_contract_terminations ...
The Confederation of Professionals STTK is encouraging a reform of the Act on Co-operation within Undertakings. The act must be reformed completely, in seeking to strengthen co-operation between employer and employees at the workplace. In the last times, the act has become merely a law on redundancies. The original goals for employees to be kept informed and promote local bargaining at company level are not fulfilled by the existing act.
English: http://heikkijokinen.info/en/trade-union-news-from-finland ...
A survey has exposed the country's growing wealth gap, with the number of houses in the middle-income bracket in the country falling in all but four of its municipalities between 2011 and 2015. Experts explained that the growing gap is being driven by earnings from capital, rather than a change in wages. The importance of capital income – mostly concentrated at the top end of wealth distribution – has increased. At the same time, the social security system has not followed general wage developments, which means that those at the lower part of wealth distribution lag behind. However, in terms of wage distribution – which is closely tied to the still relatively centralised collective wage negotiation model – things have hardly changed.
English: http://www.thelocal.se/20170216/swedens-wealth-inequality-exposed ...