The EU Council has approved a Directive regulating working conditions in the fisheries sector, following a long-standing request from the European social partners (the European Transport Workers’ Federation, Europêche and Cogeca). In 2012, the European organisations reached a pivotal agreement within the Social Dialogue Committee for Sea Fisheries (SSDC-F) on a text which would transpose the ILO Work in Fishing Convention 2007 (C188) into EU Law. Since then, the Social Partners have been urging the EU institutions to implement the agreement through a Directive whose aim is to ensure better working conditions for more than 150,000 fishermen in Europe regardless of the size of the vessel.
English: http://www.etf-europe.org/etf-press-area ...
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The education department of the trade union confederation DGB and Arbeit und Leben have developed a toolbox in the campaign against the existing wage gap between men and women. The toolbox was promoted at a proclaimed ‘Day of the equal pay at company level’. During this day, the trade unions took the opportunity to schedule the item of equal pay on the agenda in the companies, to discuss it and to start initiatives that lead to a better distribution of wages.
German: http://www.dgb.de/themen ...
The toolbox (in German): http://www.was-verdient-die-frau.de/toolbox
The Human Relations Barometer of the ETH Institute in Zürich gathers data on how employees experience their work situation. The 2016 edition focused on the relationship between employees and employers to understand how they both experience and demonstrate loyalty and cynicism. The results reveal that while the majority of employees feels loyalty to their company, a third is not satisfied with their boss and colleagues. In addition, the trend analysis shows that the discrepancy between work conditions and expectations, especially with regard to wages and the opportunity to develop, is growing. In order to better prepare employees for uncertain times, companies should promote the financial security and above all, the employability of those affected. The necessary measures for systematic career planning, such as career assessments or mentoring have still not been taken by many companies.
English: https://www.ethz.ch/en/news-and-events ...
The report (executive summaries in English, German, French and Italian): http://www.hr-barometer …
Three separate cases of industrial action were initiated at the law courts by the union Voice of the Workers Unjoni Haddiema Mghaqudin (UHM) over a number of outstanding issues affecting clerks, messengers and other court workers. A non-concluded collective agreement, discrimination in job applications and health and safety issues are among the issues that the UHM is seeking to address through the started industrial action. The negotiations for an agreement for clerks and registrars at the law courts have been going on for over two years now. The industrial action orders workers not to send or read e-mails, not to respond to telephone calls, and not to upload court judgments. A UHM-representative said that it is unacceptable for an agreement not to be concluded within such a large amount of time.
English: http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2016-10-13/local-news/Industrial-action ...
The report Low Pay Britain 2016, published by independent think-tank the Resolution Foundation, shows that forecasts of weaker pay growth in the wake of the Brexit vote mean that the National Living Wage is unlikely to reach £9 by the end of the parliament, as projected by the Office for Budget Responsibility in March 2016. The Foundation now forecasts that it will reach £8.60 by 2020. This is lower than previously estimated due to the NLW being linked to how the pay of typical workers rises, providing an important connection to wider wage growth and the health of the economy. NLW is still set to transform the low pay landscape, despite it rising slightly slower than originally forecast. It is expected to lift more than 800,000 workers out of low pay by 2020 – the first significant fall in the number of low paid workers in over two decades. There are currently 5.7 million low paid workers across Britain, three-fifths of whom are women.
English: http://www.resolutionfoundation.org/media/press-releases/national-living-wage ...
Two NGOs, Save the Children and Defence for Children Concrete, presented a four-step action plan with measures that are needed to lift children growing up in the poorest families out of poverty. These recommendations were formulated during an expert meeting in the frame of the consultation and debate with the government and the European Commission on the EU Social Pillar. Recent figures from the national statistics office CBS show 421,000 children are growing up in minimum income households. Of them, 131,000 live in families who have had very low incomes for years.
English: http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/10/action-needed-to-combat ...
The recommendations (in Dutch): https://www.defenceforchildren.nl/images ...
About 200 journalists and other workers in private TV stations have held a peaceful protest outside Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' office over feared job losses in the sector. Some of the demonstrators pushed through a police cordon to hang a protest banner on the outer fence of the central Athens building. Protesters said almost 2,000 jobs will be lost in five of the seven currently functioning TV stations that have not secured licenses in an auction of broadcasting rights held in September 2016.
English: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires ...
The content, impact and scope of collective bargaining in 2015 was evaluated in a short assessment. The total number of concluded (sectoral) agreements increased slightly, with 38 professional agreements (31 in 2014) and 5 agreements at national level (2 in 2014). In the ranking of the most important themes, wages are still the number one, followed by new contract regulations and the financing of vocational training. Working time lost a lot of attention in this round of bargaining. The assessment signals large wage disparities.
French: http://www.editions-tissot.fr/actualite/droit-du-travail ...
The low-cost spin-off of US-founded Uber was touted as a car-sharing service, which in theory would allow it to accept drivers without taxi licences. However, the courts took a different view, and the brakes were eventually put on the app by its parent company last spring after a series of convictions of drivers. By May, around 21 drivers for UberPOP had been found guilty of driving taxis illegally, and the tally of convictions is now said to be as high as 60. Sverige Radio produced several files about the case.
English: https://www.thelocal.se/20161010/60-former-uberpop-drivers-convicted-in-sweden
Dossier (in Swedish): http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel ...
Trade union FNV has initiated legal action against world soccer organisation FIFA in Swiss courts over its alleged complicity in the mistreatment of migrant workers in Qatar ahead of the 2022 World Cup. The union arguments that the football body should have demanded abolition of kafala migrant labour system ahead of 2022 World Cup. Since Fifa voted in December 2010 to hold the World Cup in Qatar, the country has faced intense criticism over the plight of an army of migrant workers that soared to 1.7 million as the country embarked on a construction spree to build the stadiums and infrastructure required. But the legal challenge, brought by the FNV on behalf of a Bangladeshi migrant worker, is the first time that Fifa has been made directly accountable before the court. If the action is successful it could open the door for hundreds of thousands of migrant workers to make similar claims that could run into tens of millions of euro.
English: http://www.volkskrant.nl/sport/fifa-charged-with-complicity ...
http://www.volkskrant.nl/sport/inside-the-hell-of-qatar ...
Letter to the court: https://www.fnv.nl/site/over-de-fnv/fnv-internationaal ...