The fifth annual European Jobs Monitor report looks at employment shifts at Member State and aggregate EU level (period 2100-2015). A `jobs-based' approach is used to describe employment shifts quantitatively (how many jobs were created or destroyed) and qualitatively (what kinds of jobs). It also introduces a new set of indicators on the task content, methods and tools used at work. These indicators are used to analyse, in greater detail, the distribution of tasks across Europe, their association with other attributes of jobs such as wages, education and job quality. Derived from international databases on work and occupations, the indicators give a detailed account of what Europeans do at work and how they do it. They provide valuable new insights on the structural differences and recent evolution of European labour markets, as well as a better understanding of labour input in the production process and the changing nature of skills required.
English: http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/sites/default/files/ef_publication .
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Trade union Unionen has entered an agreement with German IG Metall. The aim is to find tools to organise the growing part of the labour force which works through online platforms. There are some 700,000 so-called crowd workers in Sweden - people who to various degrees work in an online platform-based labour market, also known as the sharing economy or `gig economy'. Many of these online-based jobs are temporary. A majority of studies shows that some 50 percent of jobs could disappear in the next 20 years as a result of automation, digitalisation and the introduction of robots.
English: http://www.nordiclabourjournal.org/i-fokus/in-focus-2016 .
It is becoming increasingly difficult to recruit highly qualified staff to work in the European Institutions in Luxembourg because salaries are no longer competitive, a trade union has complained. Currently, 12,000 people are employed within these European Institutions, making it the second biggest employer in the country. But, according to Union Syndicale Luxembourg, as rising housing and living costs eat into the purchasing power of staff, certain grades of `employees of the EU no longer want to work in Luxembourg and those who do will leave at the first opportunity'. The union also criticised the growing practice of recruiting highly qualified temporary staff on salaries below the minimum wage for a qualified manual worker.
English: http://www.wort.lu/en/business/european-institutions-civil-servants-union .
Metro workers have started a strike because they feel that management is trying to deregulate their working conditions to the detriment of the service. The strike comes after six months of fruitless negotiations, said union representatives. The workers are demanding changes to their working hours and practices, including finishing their shifts at the same station where they start. The negotiations have continued without success.
English: http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/06/13/inenglish .
Spanish: http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2016/06/19/madrid .
Researchers who measured the feeling of happiness at work concluded that money alone does not make a happy worker. A good work atmosphere, good relationships between colleagues, and interesting work tasks, are more important for many employees. Respondents to their survey (from Austria, Germany and Switzerland) expressed that being given freedom to do their work and achieving targets and feeling confidence is more important that control from above. Self-determination and individualism are seen as important tools for motivation and productivity.
English: http://www.thelocal.at/20160617/western-austria-has-the-happiest-employees
German: http://news.kununu.com/warum-geld-nicht-alles-glueck-arbeitnehmer/
The trade union for postal and parcel delivery GPF concluded an agreement with the national post. The pay deal includes an increase as of 1 July 2016 of 1.4% for workers that were already covered by the existing 2009 collective agreement. Newcomers under the agreement will receive a pay increase of 1.5%. Workers that were already engaged on 1 January 2016 will also receive a lump-sum payment of 200 euro. The existing special child assistance pay (15 euro monthly) was prolonged.
German: http://www.gpf.at/news/post-einigung-bei-gehaltsverhandlungen
Air traffic controllers will down tools for a national strike that will see up to 500 flights cancelled nationwide. The industrial action has been organized by the Union of Flight Assistance and Control (Unica) and the League of Italian Air Traffic Controllers (Lica). The workers are striking over issues surrounding pensions and contractual rights.
English: http://www.thelocal.it/20160617/air-traffic-controllers-strike-puts-500-flights .
The president of the country has approved the law re-establishing a 35-hour week for the state sector workers, which was approved in parliament at the beginning of June. The law that brings back a 35-hour week, after the previous government put it up to 40 hours on troika suggestion, was passed by all the left-wing parties and rejected by the two centre-right parties which were in the coalition government that reintroduced the 40-hour week.
English: http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/president-approves-return .
The OECD published an updated version of its overview of unit labour costs (ULC). ULC growth in the OECD area slowed to 0.5% in the first quarter of 2016 (compared with 0.6% in the previous quarter). In the UK, ULC growth slowed (to 0.2%, compared with 0.4% in the previous quarter) as labour productivity growth picked up marginally to 0.2%. In the Euro area, ULC growth also slowed (to 0.1%, compared with 0.3% in the previous quarter), with labour productivity growth picking up slightly (to 0.2%). ULCs were flat in Germany and increased only marginally in France (0.1%). They fell in Italy (minus 0.1%) and Spain (minus 0.6%). However, ULCs accelerated strongly in Greece (up 2.1%, as productivity fell for the 4th straight quarter and compensation costs rose by 1.7%) and Portugal (up 1.6%, with marginal productivity growth).
English: http://www.oecd.org/std/labour-stats .
The proposal to lower the minimum wage requirements that employers have to pay new recruits from Ukraine is gaining momentum as the pilot project has not been much of a success. The result is so far 69 recruits, following applications from 46 companies. The government clearly expected more success when it set the annual quota of recruits at 500. The recruitment programme has been eyed with a lot of suspicion by the trades unions. They argue that a basic problem in the current skills shortage is the fact that local employers are not willing to pay the rates for the job or train workers up so that they can fill the vacancies.
English: http://radio.cz/en/section/business/ukrainian-recruitment-programme-comes-up-short