The trade unions at Bombardier Bruges have created a joint union front that negotiates with the company and the local and regional authorities in an attempt to diminish as much as possible the consequences of a planned relocation and transfer of production. The unions fear job losses of half of the workforce (some 250 job cuts). The Bombardier management has denied the losses and announced an extraordinary works council meeting on 3 March 2017 about the plans. After two days of strikes the trade unions advised the workers to get back to work.
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The social partners are responsible for wage setting and therefore they are responsible for solving the problem. That was the government’s message to Efta’s surveillance authority ESA. ESA believes Norway is in breach of the EEA agreement when demanding that businesses that post workers there must pay compensation for travel, board and lodging in line with existing collective agreements. The government’s letter is unusual. It is a response to a so-called letter of formal notice, the first step in a process at the end of which ESA can take a country to the Efta Court.
English: http://www.nordiclabourjournal.org/nyheter/news ...
The government is offering long term unemployed a ‘jobpræmie’ – job bonus – equivalent to up to 10 percent of a person’s income for no more than 18 months; a possible total of 45,000 Danish kroner (€6,000). The measure is planned to come into force on 1 April and will be valid for two years. It is targeted at some 164,000 citizens who have been unemployed and received benefits for a long consecutive period of time. However, observers are sceptical as such bonuses have been tried, both by the political left and right, with no discernible results.
English: http://www.nordiclabourjournal.org/nyheter/news-2017 ...
The annual data for 2016 reveal that the average monthly earnings for all employees were NOK 42 600 as per September 2016. This was a year-on-year increase of 1.6%, and is the lowest growth in earnings Statistics the country has measured in the 2000s. Employees in the private sector had an increase in monthly earnings of 1.4% from NOK 43 200 in 2015 to NOK 43 800 in 2016. Monthly earnings in the public sector were on average slightly higher, with an increase of 1.8% for employees in central government and 2.3% for employees in municipal and county administration. The building and construction industry has the highest growth of earnings among the industries. The average monthly earnings for women as a percentage of men’s monthly earnings increased from 85.3% in 2015 to 86.1% in 2016. Both the private and public sectors saw a reduction in the disparities between women and men's monthly earnings.
English: https://www.ssb.no/en/arbeid-og-lonn/statistikker/lonnansatt ...
Rail workers went on a national wide strike on Thursday 2 February 2017, forcing cancellations on services around the country. The strike was called by the CGT-Cheminots union over what its members consider to be low salaries and job insecurity.
English: http://www.thelocal.fr/20170202/rail-workers-go-on-strike-across-france
The Netherlands has the largest differences in the number of hours worked by men and women in the EU, according to research by the social and cultural planning office SCP. In the EU, the average number of hours worked per week is 35 hours for women and 39 hours for men. In the Netherlands, it is 29 hours for women and 37 hours for men. Young women more often take part time work immediately after completing their qualification than young men. 62 percent of women aged 18 to 25 years work only part time, even if most of the women in this age group don't have children yet. Among men aged 18-25 years, only 28% work part time.
English: http://nltimes.nl/2017/01/31/netherlands-biggest-disparities-eu ...
The report (in Dutch): http://www.scp.nl/Publicaties …
Half of the women who participate in the Introduction programme for newly arrived refugees are in work or education one year after the programme. The political goal is 70%. Men achieve this target, but women do not. The question is raised why there is such a gender gap. The author analyses the main developments on the labour market and the functioning of the introduction program. One reason for refugee women’s poorer participation may just be the accumulation of demanding care tasks in this phase of life. They are often from countries where kindergarten is an unknown phenomenon or where places are limited. The threshold for participation in society will therefore be higher for some women than for men. Many will need time to gain a foothold in the competitive labour market with its strict qualification requirements.
English: https://www.ssb.no/en/utdanning/artikler-og-publikasjoner/women-and-men ...
During the month of January 2017 teachers in Northern Ireland have been organising strikes over pay, jobs and workload. The last in the row was a strike by teachers belonging to trade union NASUWT in the Derry City and Strabane, Mid Ulster and Fermanagh and Omagh council areas. In October 2016, all five main teaching unions in Northern Ireland rejected an offer that would have seen their pay frozen last year and a rise of 1% for 2016-17. Members of the NASUWT in Belfast and Newtownabbey subsequently held a one-day walkout. About 7,000 teachers belonging to the INTO union also staged a half-day strike on 18 January.
English: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland ...
http://www.thetransfertutor.co.uk/list-schools-striking-31st-january-2017
The Minister of Social Affairs and Equal Rights has planned to introduce a brand-new labour market policy based on the Nordic model. He will also present proposed legislation to implement an equal pay standard. The social partners have agreed to review the labour market negotiation model, i.e. the framework for how the negotiating policy and the labour market works. The goal is to create a negotiation framework modelled on the Nordic Model. Work methods used for wage negotiations will be improved. Another aim is to achieve greater purchasing power and economic balance while lowering inflation and interest rates and stabilising the currency. The agreement should also help create balance and calm in the labour market.
English: http://www.nordiclabourjournal.org/artikler/portrett …
Trade union FNV has called for the retirement age to be made more flexible to reflect different types of labour. The age at which workers become eligible for their pension is rising gradually to 67 years and 3 months by 2022, after which it will be tied to life expectancy. Forecasts by the government statistics service CBS predict that people in 2060 will not retire until halfway through their 72nd year. The FNV says later retirement ages will discriminate against people in physically demanding and arduous jobs.
English: http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives ...