Uber has lost a tribunal case on the employment rights of drivers, a ruling which could affect thousands of other workers. Two drivers, supported by the GMB trade union, brought legal action against the private hire firm, arguing that they should be entitled to holiday pay, a guaranteed minimum wage and breaks. The Central London Employment Tribunal ruled in their favour. The GMB said the outcome could have ‘major’ implications for more than 30,000 drivers across England and Wales. Uber says it will appeal the judgement. The case centred on whether drivers with the firm, where passengers hail cars using an app, are employees.
English: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2110799-uber-loses-tribunal ...
Uber dossier (The Guardian): https://www.theguardian.com/technology/uber
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A report of the pensions and social security agency INPS reveals that 6.4 million people claiming state pensions, 39.6% of the total, have to make ends meet with less than 1000 euro a month. This percentage is much higher among women (48.3%) than men (29.8%). The average amount of the pension benefit is 12,136 euro a year, with, in total, 16.2 million people benefitting.
English: http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english ...
INPS Report (in Italian): https://www.inps.it/banchedatistatistiche/menu/casellario ...
Workers at Posta Romana are on strike over pay since 27 October. The company proposed to the workers two plans to increase wages. The first proposes increases between RON 60 and 200 (13 and 44 euro), while the second one proposes increases between RON 60 and 140 (13 and 31 euro). Both schemes could be implemented starting 1 January 2017. Both salary schemes are targeting 22,303 employees, specifically those with wages between RON 1,250 and 2,202 (277 and 489 euro). The first focuses on the employees with the smallest wages, which will also benefit from the biggest increase. The second scheme proposes a RON 140 increase for employees with the smallest wages, while those with the biggest wages will receive RON 60.
English: http://www.business-review.eu/news/romanian-post-employees-strike-caused ...
A newspaper reported about the practice that Ukrainians who want to work in the Czech Republic must first pay protection money of up to 2000 euro per capita to the mafia. Industry is short of 70,000 workers, according to an analysis of the Association of Exporters, and the employers' demand for the Ukrainian labour force has been steeply rising. Moreover, most firms must pay extra money to intermediaries for their Ukrainian workers
English: http://praguemonitor.com/2016/10/27/mfd-ukrainians-must-pay-mafia ...
After failed negotiations on details of part-time work contracts for flight attendants, the categorical union UFO announced that cabin crew and flight attendants at Lufthansa's low-budget subsidiary Germanwings would join a strike of their Eurowings colleagues. The dispute between Eurowings and UFO has been simmering for more than two years. UFO insisted it had offered to take the labour dispute with Eurowings to mediation to avert industrial action, but management had failed to make a decision on the matter. Chances for a settlement improved when management put forward a new offer, including an average pay increase of around 7 percent for about 400 flight staff at the carrier. After a one day strike the talks were reopened. The negotiations are also complicated because of the competition between UFO and the larger trade union ver.di.
English: http://www.dw.com/en/two-more-days-of-eurowings-strikes-threatened ...
German: http://www.n-tv.de/ticker/Eurowings-und-Ufo-nehmen-Gespraeche ...
Editors and journalists at weekly magazine 168 Óra have not received salaries for months, even as the magazine’s parent company hires expensive new journalists, reports the news site Átlátszó. British-owned Brit Media Kft. bought the magazine’s publisher one year ago, but is now reportedly struggling with liquidity problems. The investigation by Átlátszó found that simple liquidity is not the issue keeping the staff from their salaries, which reportedly amount to several million forints in back wages.
English: http://budapestbeacon.com/news-in-brief/168-ora-journalists-not-receiving-wages ...
All 14 trade unions affiliated to trade union confederation LO have agreed on joint demands ahead of the 2017 bargaining round. The joint demands include focusing on low-wage groups, which means that the lowest-paid members of LO affiliates will receive an extra increment in kronor. This means an initiative that could give 50% of all female LO members pay increases at individual level. To tackle the abuse of temporary employment contracts, LO’s General Council also decided to set up a working group in which the affiliates together with LO are to review the entire Employment Protection Act ahead of negotiations with the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise.
English: http://www.lo.se/english/news/co_ordinated_pay_demands ...
Trade union OGBL announced that a social plan had been signed by the management and staff delegation members at the Twinerg electric turbo-gas-vapour centre in Esch-sur-Alzette. Fourteen workers who will be made redundant by the closure of the power plant have signed a social plan, ensuring a financial and social package of measures. The closure was announced in July 2016. Among the measures agreed for staff in the plan are extra-legal benefits related to seniority, compensation linked to family situation and the possibility to extend the notice period for workers who have not found work after the legal notice period.
English: http://www.wort.lu/en/business/luxembourg-union-ogbl ...
According to figures for 2014, published by Federal Statistical Office Destatis, roughly 45% of the employees in Germany worked in businesses bound by collective agreements, that is, in businesses subject to either a branch-specific collective agreement (41%) or a company agreement (4%). Based on the results of the structure of earnings survey, Destatis also reports that the proportion of businesses subject to collective agreements was just under 15% in 2014. These figures are rather different from actual figures presented by the Institute IAB that calculated a coverage rate (branch and company level combined) of 57%.
English: https://www.destatis.de/EN/PressServices ...
German: https://www.destatis.de/DE/PresseService ...
IAB-data (in German): http://www.boeckler.de/cps ...
Bulgaria ranks last in terms of income not only among EU member-states but also in the region, shows a survey of the Confederation of Independent Syndicates in Bulgaria (KNSB). The nominal amount of the average monthly wage of 420 euro is about 5.5 times lower than the average levels for the EU, where it is 2,293 euro. The monthly wage in the country is 12 times lower than that in Switzerland and about 6.2 times lower than the monthly wage in Germany. It lags significantly behind monthly wages in Balkan countries.
English: http://www.novinite.com/articles/177059/Bulgaria ...