The average number of hours worked by agency workers across Europe in October grew 2.8% year-on-year compared with the same period in 2015, according to figures from the World Employment Confederation Europe (previously known as Eurociett). The figures showed that Denmark had the highest growth at 10.3% while Switzerland saw a return to growth at 3.5% and Norway stabilised. Italy continues to show a year-on-year decline. Though Germany is not included, data collected by IW Köln (Cologne Institute for Economic Research) and BAP show an increase of agency workers by 5% from January to May 2016.
English: http://www2.staffingindustry.com/eng/Editorial/Daily-News/Europe-Growth ...
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Plane and train maker Bombardier will shed jobs for the second time in 2016, cutting about 10% of its global workforce over two years as it deepens turnaround efforts at its rail division. The Montreal-based company, which struggled in recent years with cost overruns in its aerospace unit, said it will cut about 7,500 jobs globally with about two-thirds of those in Bombardier Transportation. The other cuts will be made in the aerospace division. Workers at a Bruges factory of Bombardier went on strike after the alarming news. During a meeting with the trade unions the local management indicated that the consequences for the factory would be rather modest, because the workforce had already been reduced during an earlier restructuring.
English: http://fortune.com/2016/10/21/bombardier-7500-jobs-layoffs/
Dutch: http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/economie ...
According to a survey carried out by the employment portal cvmarket.lv, 86 % of employees have official employment contracts and pay all taxes. 4 % of respondents said that they were paid under the table, and another 4 % said that part of their salaries was paid under the table. Compared to the 2015 survey, when 380 respondents were interviewed, the situation has not improved much. In 2015, 82 % said their full wages were reported to the state, while 5 % confessed that their wages were paid cash-in-hand.
English: http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/analytics ...
The teacher union Związek Nauczycielstwa Polskiego (ZNP) organised teacher protests in 17 cities all over the country, including in Warsaw in a protest against the draft education reform. The draft reform envisages to abolish lower secondary (gymnasiums) and the extension of primary school education from six to eight years and upper secondary education (lyceums) from three to four years. ZNP reported that the overall education time would be shortened by one year. The introduction of eight years of primary school teaching would result in teachers’ having to work in two shifts. It could lead to massive costs which would be allocated to administrative measures rather than to the modernisation of classrooms.
English: https://www.csee-etuce.org/en/news/archive/1671-poland-protest-actions ...
According to statistics compiled by the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions SAK, the number of people under threat of redundancy during the third quarter of 2016 was 11,849. This figure is the lowest in the last five years. The Act of Cooperation stipulates that in all undertakings with more than 20 employees, any planned redundancies are subject to mandatory consultation with personnel representatives. The final number of redundancies in such cases invariably remains open. The statistics are based on information made publicly available and do not include the municipal sector. This means that in real terms the actual figures are greater. Many of the latest announcements which threaten unemployment or redundancies come from IT and hardware companies such as Ericsson, Tecnotree and Fujitsu Finland.
English: http://heikkijokinen.info/en/trade-union-news-from-finland ...
Efforts to avoid the first of seven second-level school strikes going ahead from the last week of October 2016 will go to the wire after talks between the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland and Department of Education were suspended without any progress. The union’s 18,000 members are due to picket more than 500 second-level schools in a campaign for equal pay for younger teachers. However, schools could remain shut for weeks after the mid-term break when a separate industrial action will see ASTI members stop supervising students outside class times, or substituting for absent colleagues from 7 November 2016. Secondary school teachers in the TUI have been directed not to undertake any work normally done by ASTI members who are involved in industrial action.
English: http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/efforts-to-halt-school-strikes-will-go-to-wire ...
The trade unions have been asking for it for quite some time, and now it will take place. The system of lunch vouchers will be modified. As of January 2017, the value of ‘chèques-repas’ vouchers, currently at €8.40 each, will increase to €10.80. Lunch vouchers include a contribution by employers to their employees, largely exempt from taxation. The 30% increase is foreseen as part of the tax reform, and the adjustment is welcome by many: from trade unions to restaurant operators, to providers managing the vouchers, not to mention the roughly 60,000 employees who benefit from them. It's the first time in over 20 years that the value has increased; in 2002, however, the increase was only by one cent.
English: http://www.wort.lu/en/luxembourg/cheques-repas ...
According to the general secretary of the union NBRU, widespread industrial action across the public transport network is inevitable unless Bus Éireann backs away from plans to separate the Expressway service from the rest of the company. Unions have warned that a ‘conflict scenario’ is developing if the company adopts unilateral changes to the terms and conditions of staff. Bus Éireann has indicated that it wants to separate Expressway from the rest of the company, reduce the staff number and introduce pay cuts. Compulsory redundancies have not been ruled out and unions will ballot for industrial action over the issue.
English: http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/allout-transport-strike-inevitable-if ...
Employees of multinational services company Randstad who work in Lisbon call centres on behalf of Energias de Portugal have approved two motions demanding for an end to casual/atypical work contracts. The employees have submitted the document to EDP and to the Parliament, where officials from the largest trade union federation, the CGTP, backed their protest.
English: http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/call-centre-employees-on-edp-contract-demand ...
Workers at electric utility EDF went on strike for 24 hours starting on 19 October 2016. EDF announced the action in a note posted on the website of the grid operator RTE. This action follows a demonstration organised by the union FNME against a possible cut in the unions' financing. This follows another previous collective action in the sector. On 15 September 2016, another strike was led by several unions including the energy industry union FNME-CGT against the adoption of the new labour code.
English: http://www.platts.com/latest-news/electric-power/london/frances-edf …