Trade union DISK/Tekstil takes action against Hyosung, a South Korean textile company. The company has defied the law to deny recognition to DISK/Tekstil for five years. Now the union is taking strike action at the company's plant in Çerkezköy. Opened in 2008, the textile factory employs 339 workers. In 2011, the union won statutory recognition under Turkish labour law by recruiting a majority of workers, and the Ministry of Labour and Social Security confirmed that DISK/Tekstil had achieved the required legal majority to be the legitimate social dialogue partner. Conditions at the factory are bad, and the union alleges that environmental and health and safety laws are violated.
English: http://www.industriall-union.org/turkish-workers-strike .
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The government, employers and several unions are negotiating a new minimum wage level, but the proposed rise has already been described by one independent union as an `insult'. The minimum monthly wage is currently set at 21,050 dinars (174 euro) - among the lowest in the Balkan region, and also in Europe. The employers' association stated that a realistic rise should be six RSD per hour (four euro cents).
English: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/minimal-rise-of-wages-for-workers .
The average net salary went up to RON 2,078 in June 2016 (460 euro), an increase of 0.7% compared to the previous month, according to data from the National Statistics Institute (INS). As compared to June 2015, the average net nominal earnings increased by 14.3%. The real earnings index, in relation with the same period of previous year was 115.1%. According to HR company Smartree, the wages of workers in the private sector went up by an average 10% in the first half of 2016, compared to the same period in 2015. The bonuses received by employees also went up by 16% year-on-year. Extra-salary benefits became more common among companies in the first six month of the year, both the monthly ones, such as food vouchers, medical or gym subscriptions, as well as occasional benefits, such as gift vouchers, premiums on various occasions. Meanwhile, the job vacancy rate decreased, according to the latest INS press release.
English: http://www.romania-insider.com/average-net-salary-goes-slightly .
http://www.romania-insider.com/wages-private-sector-increase-romania-2016/
Press releases: http://www.insse.ro/cms .
http://www.insse.ro/cms/sites .
Teachers in secondary education will go on strike if the education minister does not back down from his anticipated proposal to create a handful of permanent teaching jobs while cutting around 90 contract teaching jobs, secondary public-school teachers' association OELMEK announced. In a statement after an extraordinary board meeting, the trade union placed the blame for the upcoming turmoil squarely on the education minister, who has decided to give secondary education only 11.5% of new jobs.
English: http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/08/19/teacher-union-warns-turmoil-ahead .
An economist blog analyses how the labour market has improved despite the fact that unemployment has increased. Figures from Statistics Estonia show unemployment was 6.5% in the second quarter of 2016 and employment was 2.6% higher than a year earlier. Not all data sources indicate an increase in employment. Compared to the figures from the labour force survey, data from the Tax and Customs Board on the number of people receiving wages were slightly more pessimistic, as this number fell by 0.4% in the second quarter of 2016 compared to the same time a year ago.
English: http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/direct_speech .
Trade unions IG BCE (chemical/miners) and ver.di (services) reached an agreement with RWE, the country's second biggest utility, to increase workers' pay. RWE's wage contract proposal includes a 1 percent rise in annual pay on 1 January 2017 and again on 1 January 2018 and covers 24 months. Workers at company divisions not offering early retirement will receive a one-off payment of 1,000 euro in 2017 as part of the deal that excludes staff at subsidiaries RWE Generation SE and RWE Power AG. Shortly before the IG BCE deal, the services trade union ver.di had agreed a similar deal for the (sustainable) electricity sector.
English: http://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2016/08/rwe-power-unit-workers .
German: http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/rwe-und-ver-di-einigen-sich .
http://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/industrie/tarifabschluss-rwe-und-ig-bce .
Trade union SIPTU welcomed the approval by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform of a payment recognising the vital role of community mental health nurses. Psychiatric nurses working in communities will receive additional payments of about €5,000. Union representatives had been engaging with the HSE management, under the auspices of the Workplace Relation Commission (WRC), in an attempt to resolve a number of issues having a negative impact on the recruitment and retention of nurses. An agreement was reached on a package of 12 proposals at WRC, including an additional 60 psychiatric nurse training places to be provided in 2016 and 70 more in 2017. 40 postgrad places will be offered to nurses from other disciplines to train as psychiatric nurses from January 2017. All temporary nurses and 2016 graduates will be offered permanent posts.
English: http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/psych-nurses-agree-deal .
http://www.siptu.ie/media/pressreleases2016/fullstory .
The 2016 Yearbook Migration & Integration offers an insight in the living and working conditions of people with migration background. The booklet (in German) presents various data sources across all statistical fields and significant information containing texts, tables and charts. It informs about migration, language and education, employment and the labour market, social welfare and health status. The labour market section provides details on the relevant sectors and occupations as well as on the labour market position.
English (download is in German): http://www.statistik.at/web_en/publications_services .
In a joint statement, the CGT and CFE-CGC trade unions accused the second biggest telecoms company SFR of placing financial interests ahead of workers' rights. They refused to sign up to the redundancy plan. CFDT and UNSA, representing a majority of the company's workers, already agreed to the job losses that might result in savings of 400 million euros (£342.02 million) annually. SFR had proposed a redundancy package averaging 2.5 months of salary per year of service. The redundancy plan will cost around 800 million euros.
English: http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-sfr-group-unions .
http://www.mobileworldlive.com/featured-content/home-banner/unions-accept-sfr-cuts/
The total income average per household member has increased in the second quarter of 2016 by 3% year-on-year, while expenditure has fallen by 1.5%. Household income average per capita was BGN 1,239 (633 euro). Average expenditure per household member was BGN 1,076. Wages and salaries had a share of 54.8% within the total income, followed by pensions (29.3%), self-employment (6%) and social benefits (3.7%).
English: http://www.nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/pressreleases .