Doctors started striking after failing to reach an agreement with the government on pay and workload standards in negotiations that have lasted for almost a year. The action is not a traditional strike, instead doctors decided to strictly stick to a 40-hour work week. The head of the FIDES trade union at the UKC Ljubljana hospital said there would be no major changes for the patients the first week into the strike. The action was being carried out in 13 community health centres and 11 hospitals, with most of them opting for rescheduling to cope for now. FIDES has been endorsed in the strike activities by Praktikum, a union representing general practitioners, though it is not entirely clear whether Praktikum members are also on strike. Doctors have been demanding new workload standards and a pay rise in the average salary.
English: http://www.sloveniatimes.com/slovenian-doctors-on-strike-activities-to-be-stepped-up
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An OECD report provides a comprehensive picture of well-being in the major Danish cities, by looking at a wide range of dimensions that shape people’s lives. It contains both objective and subjective indicators meant to help policy makers, citizens and other stakeholders to better understand living conditions not only among cities but also among the different neighbourhoods within cities. Chapter 3 includes data and graphs that illustrate the spatial segregation of people by income and employment status. Spatial segregation is a situation where people sort within the space of a city-region in a way that generates an over-concentration in specific places of people who are similar with respect to certain socio-economic aspects, such as income or socio-economic status.
English: http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/urban-rural-and-regional-development/well-being …
Full report: http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/urban-rural-and …
The trade unions PRO-GE and GPA-djp and the Association of Austrian Machinery and Metalware (FMMI), reached an agreement on a 1.68% salary increase on average for the 120,000 employees in the metal sector. The agreement is valid for 12 months from 1 November 2016 on. Part of the deal is a 2% increase for wages at the low end of the pay scale and a 1.75% increase for apprentices pay. As usual, this deal has set the scene for other metal branches. Shortly after a similar agreement was concluded in the metal mining and gas branches and the vehicle industry.
German: http://www.proge.at/servlet/Content …
Flyer with the general result (in German): http://www.gpa-djp.at/cs/Satellite …
New tax reform proposals were presented to the social partners before a meeting of the Economic and Social Council. The Independent Croatian Unions and the Federation of Autonomous Trade Unions of Croatia are against the government proposed tax reform. The unions criticised the abolition of the lowest income tax bracket of 12 percent and the reduction of the maximum rate from 40 to 36 percent. According to them this will only increase social inequality and it will benefit those with the highest incomes.
English: https://www.total-croatia-news.com/item/14779-trade-unions-warn …
The refugee crisis engaged the participants at the Nordic Council’s session in Copenhagen. Border controls introduced one year ago between Sweden and Denmark run contrary to the open Nordic labour market. A joint Nordic control at the border between Germany and Denmark is suggested as a solution for easing the problems faced by Öresund commuters.
English: http://www.nordiclabourjournal.org/i-fokus/in-focus-2016/nordic-council-session …
The Social security Administration (CSSZ) published data on pension pay and wages. The average old-age pension amounted to 11,441 crowns (423 euro) in September, which was 107 crowns more than a year ago. In all, almost 2.4 million old-age pensions were paid, roughly 18,500 more than a year ago. Almost 600,000 of them were paid for early retirement. As before, men receive on average higher pensions as women. The former were paid an average 12,643 crowns a month, which was 2,260 crowns more than women, whose average pension amounted to 10,383 crowns. The average salary rose by 1,074 crowns, or 4.2 percent, to 26,898 crowns (995 euro) a month by mid-2016.
English: http://praguemonitor.com/2016/11/04/average-old-age-pension-rises …
Despite the fact, as revealed by the IMF and other observers, that economic growth is strengthening and labour market indicators are showing noticeable improvement, the country’s Fiscal Council is of the opinion that the announced increase in salaries and pensions in 2017 could very easily prove premature. The Council made this statement in the context of all the ‘unsolved’ problems of the country's public finances.
English: http://www.b92.net/eng/news/business …
Garbage collectors in the Algarve city of Portimão called off their planned strike. A source from the union representing the local refuse collectors said the action was scrapped after the city’s Water and Waste Company EMARP promised to honour workers’ demands of two consecutive days off a week from January 2017. The head of the union said a memorandum of understanding was signed between the union and the company’s administration to give workers two consecutive days off, including Sunday, during low season.
English: http://theportugalnews.com/news/portimao-binmen-scrap-strike …
Workers at the Helsinki dockyard of Russian-owned shipbuilder Arctech downed tools and walked off the job. The industrial action came during negotiations on the government's competitiveness pact by employer and employee representatives. Arctech chief executive described the action as an ‘illegal strike’. Employees wanted to discuss issues such as wages as well as the a so-called ‘survival clause’ in the competitiveness deal, which may be invoked in cases when an employer runs into financial difficulty that could result in job cuts or changes to wage and salary agreements. The terms and conditions of the clause should be agreed by employer and employee representatives in collective bargaining talks. The trade unions said that employer representatives only wanted to discuss the proposal of extending working hours by 24 hours per year.
English: http://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/helsinki_shipyard_workers_down_tools …
Lisbon Metro workers decided in a plenary session to sign the Metro de Lisboa Company Agreement that will regulate their working relationship, bringing an end to five years of negotiations. The Federation of Transport Unions (FECTRANS) announced that the workers voted in the majority for the unions to act as representatives in signing the company agreement with the Board of Directors. The agreement is scheduled to be signed at a next meeting on 9 November. The unions will ‘continue to fight’ for other rights including wage increases as the workers have not had an increase since 2007, and have had no career progression.
English: http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/metro-workers-sign-company-agreement …