The government passed a regulation that will make it easier to employ seasonal workers from abroad. This includes lowering the minimum pay requirement for seasonal workers from a third country. For companies to hire seasonal workers to work abroad, the job must be listed as a seasonal one. The list of such jobs has now been expanded to include next to agriculture, also accommodation, and food production.
English: http://www.baltictimes.com/estonian_government_makes_easier.
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The Constitutional Court has rejected a request by trade union CGIL for a referendum on key provisions of the Jobs Act, adopted under former prime minister Matteo Renzi. The law was one of Renzi’s flagships in his attempt to revive the economy. The law scrapped a rule that gave terminated workers from large private sector companies the right to be re-hired if a court established that the termination was unjustified. Big businesses as well as the bond market appeared to welcome the Constitutional Court’s decision. Trade union CGIL announced that they consider bringing the case to the European Court of Justice now.
English: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/italy-court-rejects ...
The government has proposed a law that would let workers sue their employer if they can’t justify a wage gap between men and women for doing the same job. Under the draft law, companies with 200 or more employees will have to provide workers with details on how their salary is calculated. Bigger companies, with more than 500 staff, will have to report regularly on efforts to provide equal pay for men and women. Women still earn less than men, official statistics show. Female workers receive on average 21 percent less than their male counterparts in gross earnings. The proposal has been received with mixed feelings as it will only apply to 40% of all women workers.
English: http://www.politico.eu/article/germany-backs-equal-pay-laws/
German: http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/manuela-schwesig-gesetz ...
The trade union reaction (in German): http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/gesetz ...
Emigration remains one of the biggest challenges, especially as there is a shortage of skilled workers. Unemployment stands at 8% and salaries rise faster than productivity, which might hurt competitiveness. According to the International Organisation for Migration Vilnius office, economic reasons are major concerns of the migrants, combined with factors like the lack of social security and justice, no trust in the state, demeaning attitudes of employers toward employees as well as better work opportunities abroad.
English: http://famagusta-gazette.com/lack-of-skilled-workers-emigration ...
On 10 January 2017, trade union federation UNI Europa Finance signed together with the management of BNP Paribas and the European Works Council an agreement on the ‘Prevention of Work-Related Stress’. It is the third and last part of the bank’s Social Charter. Two earlier agreements had been signed in this frame: one on the management of employment and one on professional equality between men and women. These three agreements together form the Social Charter that covers all employees of BNP Paribas within the European Union. The Charter is a big win for the European trade union movement and serves as a good example for other multinational companies in the finance sector.
English: http://www.uniglobalunion.org/news/prevention-stress-agreement-signed-bnp-paribas
The agreement (in English): http://www.uniglobalunion.org/sites ...
The agreement (in French): http://www.wk-ce.fr/actualites/upload/bnp-paribas-accord ...
One of the main bank worker unions added its voice to the growing chorus of those calling for the ‘temporary nationalisation’ of Novo Banco. The Bank of Portugal announced earlier in January that the US investment fund Lone Star, which also owns Vilamoura, was best placed to buy Novo Banco and it would be invited for further negotiations. The union stressed the importance of the bank for the domestic market.
English: http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/union-calls-for-novo-banco-nationalisation ...
Trade unions OGB-L and ALEBA have taken a stand against private bank Edmond de Rothschild's decision to move its IT department to Switzerland. A move that would make 18 people redundant in April 2018. The unions' main concern is the apparent refusal of the company's management to negotiate a social plan for the affected employees. The trade unions organised a protest rally in front of the private bank's headquarters.
English: http://www.wort.lu/en/business/switzerland-move-luxembourg-unions ...
As of 1 January 2017, the country has implemented a plan whereby unemployed citizens receive a basic monthly income. Created by the government agency responsible for social security benefits (KELA), it will be run as a pilot scheme in which 2,000 randomly selected unemployed people receive 560 euro every month in place of their existing social security payments. In this article the authors argue that, looking at the logic behind the experiment, a basic income has more advantages than disadvantages. The social security system becomes much simpler, with less benefit fraud, and the scheme will reward unpaid contributions to society.
English: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/03/finland-trials-basic-income ...
https://theconversation.com/how-finland-could-see-benefits ...
An extensive reform of the pension system applying from January 2017 has left many residents of the country confused. The country’s pension system is based on two complementary pension schemes: the public plan known as the national pension and a compulsory earnings-related pension scheme. The national pension provides a flat-rate benefit of up to 20 percent of average wages, with a minimum guaranteed income reduced by the amount of the earnings-related pension. The earnings-related pension is financed by contributions paid by both employers and employees and is the backbone of the pension system. From January 2017, the current retirement age of 63 years will be raised by 3 months annually, reaching an official retirement age of 65 years by 2027. After that, retirement age will be linked to life expectancy.
English: http://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/incremental_retirement_age_hike ... http://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/when_can_i_retire_pension_scheme_changes ...
The finance ministry raised 600 million crowns to improve the salaries of nurses as from the latter half of the year. The ministry reached an agreement on raising the spending on health insurance fees the state pays for children, pensioners and the unemployed by a total of 3.5 billion crowns annually in 2018-20. The increase is yet to be approved by the government.
English: http://praguemonitor.com/2017/01/09/minister-gains-czk-600-million ...