Unemployment reached an historical 15-year low in December 2016 with 406 unemployed (the last time the absolute figure was lower, was in 2001) and an overall unemployment percentage 0f 2.1%. A quarter of the unemployed is categorised as long-term unemployed. Especially youngsters profited from the recovery.
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The municipality of Gothenburg applied an 18 months’ trial of the effect of a reduced six-hour workday for nurses at a hospital. The results show that the number of sick days taken by the staff was considerably reduced. Nurses at the 30-hour-per-week facility took 6.2 percent few sick days than nurses at the 40-hour-per-week hospital. As expected, the workers under the experiment reported that they were less tired and more fulfilled by their work. Patients also reported increased quality of care.
English: https://www.inverse.com/article/25718-six-hour-workdays
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/04/sweden-sees-benefits ...
The Chamber of Deputies has adopted a draft project that amends the Fiscal Code to remove the health contributions for pensions, as well as the income tax of 16% for the pensions below RON 2,000 (443 euro). Until now, only the pensions below RON 1,050 were exempted from paying the income tax of 16%. Currently, over 3.1 million retirees in Romania have pensions below RON 1,050. The new bill extends this measure to the pensions ranging between RON 1,050 and RON 2,000. A number of 1.43 million Romanians will thus be exempted from paying the income tax of 16%.
English: http://www.romania-insider.com/romanian-deputies-remove-income-tax ...
Uber has suffered another setback to its operational model in Europe after insurance agency Suva ruled that Uber drivers are employees, not freelance contractors as the company claims - meaning it must pay social security contributions. This follows a similar ruling by a UK employment tribunal in October which found that two Uber drivers bringing a claim were employed as workers by Uber, rather than being freelance contractors. The public-sector insurer Suva is involved in determining whether workers are freelance or not as a provider of compulsory on-the-job accident insurance which is required for certain professions. Trade union Unia welcomed the decision as a clear sign that Uber is circumventing social security obligations.
English: https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/05/uber-drivers-judged-to-be-employees ...
German: http://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/uber-blitzt-ab-fahrer-sind-angestellte
Economists at the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, have challenged the assumptions of the Treasury in their forecast for the economy and the impact of Brexit in 2017. They warn that the UK is in danger of remaining a low wage, low skill country unless it can create the conditions for a reorientation of its economic model post-Brexit.
English: http://www.blogs.jbs.cam.ac.uk/cbr/cbr-economic-forecast ...
The report: http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/fileadmin/user_upload/centre-for-business-research ...
After failed negotiations with their employer, workers of the engineering company PPS Group Detva decide to go on strike on 9 January 2017. The unions were not able to agree with employer on some points of the collective agreement. Salary increase is the main conflictual issue. The decision was made based on the results of a strike vote. Almost 87 percent of the 800 employees of PPS Group Detva participated and of these, 97 percent agreed to a strike.
English: https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20426135/pps-group-employees-to-strike ...
The trade union 3F has updated its information on collective bargaining and the specificities for workers in the hospitality branches, the construction and the ‘green’ sectors. The webpages say that it is important to become a union member, the moment someone gets a job. This is followed by overviews of the workers’ rights, the wages, pay supplements and other working conditions in the envisaged sectors. These pages complement the sectoral information that was already provided in 2016 for the transport and manufacture sectors. The general page also has a link to information on social dumping.
English: https://www.3f.dk/english/wages-and-collective-agreements/collective-agreements
https://www.3f.dk/english/wages-and-collective-agreements/hotel-and-restaurant
https://www.3f.dk/english/wages-and-collective-agreements/byggeri
https://www.3f.dk/english/wages-and-collective-agreements/den-groenne-sektor
The region of Emilia Romagna discusses a proposed bill to reduce the working week in a bid to tackle unemployment. The proposal would see the working week cut down from 40 hours to 32 in, effectively creating a four-day week. Regional councillor and former labour law professor Piergiovanni Alleva, who is behind the bill, argues that the change could see as many as 200,000 new jobs created. Emilia Romagna has currently 2 million people in employment and 160,000 job-seekers, according to recent available data.
English: http://www.thelocal.it/20170105/italian-region-mulls-introducing-32-hour ...
The trade unions that cooperate in the association Central Organisation of Industrial Employees (CO-Industri) have opened the negotiations for a new agreement with employers’ organisation Dansk Industri. The old agreement, running from 2014 to 2017, will expire as of 1 March 2017. The central agreement applies to some 230,000 industrial workers in around 6000 companies. This overall framework of collective bargaining is supplemented by local agreements, negotiated by the parties at the enterprises.
Danish: http://co-industri.dk/DA/Nyheder/Pages ...
Explanation of the bargaining process (in English): http://www.co-industri.dk/uk/Pages ...
The High Pay Centre, an independent non-party think tank that monitors pay at the top of the income distribution, published calculations that reveal that the top FTSE100 management already earned the average annual salary on Wednesday 4-1 by lunchtime. After just two and a half days the country’s top bosses have made more money than the average worker earns in an entire year. Pay for top company executives returning to work in 2017 passed the UK average salary of £28,200 by around mid-day on what is called ‘Fat Cat Wednesday’. Trade union GMB stated that this is not just a FTSE100 company problem.
English: http://highpaycentre.org/blog/fat-cat-wednesday-2017