The ride-sharing application Uber has caused controversy around the world with its ease of use and comparatively low prices. Hungarian taxi drivers have been protesting to have the government restrict access to the ride-sharing program. Ultimately, the government plans to pass new law that would ban the application and its servers from being accessed. According to the proposal, the purpose of the law is to obstruct access to unlawfully operating taxi or taxi-service type dispatchers operating on the internet.
English: http://budapestbeacon.com/news-in-brief/taxis-in-hungary-are-not-feeling-uber .
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Port pilots at Cyprus Ports Authority (CPA) organised a two-hour work stoppage on 17 May. They protested against the disciplinary actions taken by the CPA board against one of their colleagues, a chief accountant at the CPA, who is also the head of port workers' union SYALK. In an announcement, SYALK said that the document justifying the disciplinary action launched against its chairman by the CPA board is unfair. The CPA charges are labelled `undocumented' and the union demands to put an end to the victimisation.
English: http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/05/17/port-pilots-stage-two-hour-wide-strike/
NGO Caritas Malta has presented a study titled `A minimum essential budget for a decent living', a research study focusing on three low-income household categories. The document was produced with the aim of establishing a minimum essential budget for a decent living. The focus of Caritas was on low income families. The NGO made a number of recommendations, including the improvement of the minimum wage.
English: http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2016-05-17/local-news/Caritas-attempts .
The report: http://www.caritasmalta.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Caritas-Report-2016 .
The National Survey on Working Conditions (NEA) is a large scale survey among the workforce. In 2015 the statistical office CBS and research institute TNO worked out the 11th NEA, in cooperation with the labour ministry. The results show that only 20% of the workforce active in flexible jobs is satisfied with this status; the other 80% is looking for a direct contract. The survey also asked the attitude of workers towards collective agreements. The respondents (in total almost 46,000 workers) expressed both high importance (19.5 not important, 50.6% important, 30% highly important) and relatively high satisfaction (18.8% not satisfied, 70% satisfied, 11.2% highly satisfied) towards the existence and content of collective agreements.
Dutch: https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/nieuws/2016/20/1-op-de-5-flexwerkers-heeft-voorkeur .
The report (in Dutch): http://www.monitorarbeid.tno.nl/dynamics/modules .
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has assessed that while the country is recording economic growth, it could be higher and more sustainable. The usual IMF-receipt is repeated: reforming and privatising state-owned companies and banks, narrowing of the budget deficit, pension reform, such as further extending the retirement age and indexing pensions to consumer price inflation. Finally, the IMF recommends a social pact that guarantees wage moderation and a tie of social transfers, wages and pensions to GDP growth.
English: http://www.sloveniatimes.com/imf-slovenia-s-growth-could-be-higher-and .
Trade union IG Metall and employers in North Rhine-Westphalia reached a wage agreement that could pave the way for a further boost to real incomes in Europe's largest economy. The deal in North Rhine-Westphalia is for a 4.8 percent pay rise in two steps, covering some 700,000 workers. The union said the talks should serve as a model for metal workers in other regions. With unemployment at a record low, workers have been able to push for higher pay even with inflation weak and disposable income getting a boost from falling fuel prices. That's helped support consumer demand, which along with government spending helped the economy to grow at its fastest pace in two years at the start of 2016.
English: http://www.dw.com/en/german-metalworkers-secure-strong-wage-hike .
The Leuven University, commissioned by the employers' organisation BusinessEurope, launched the results of a research on the functioning of information and consultation procedures based on the EWC Directive. The Directive allows representatives of workers from European countries in which MNCs have operations to regularly meet central management with the purpose of exchanging information and engaging in consultation. The work in the EWC comprises a wide range of forms and types reflecting different paths of development pursued by managers, varying from information and consultation to negotiation.
English: https://soc.kuleuven.be/ceso/wo/erlm/files/permewc-final-report-eng
An OECD review in a series on the skills and integration of migrants and their children signals that humanitarian migrants and their families face greater challenges to integrate into the labour market than other groups. Sweden has highly developed and longstanding integration policies that mainly aim at upskilling migrants while temporarily lowering the hiring costs. According to the OECD, tools that work more strongly with the social partners and the civil society are less well developed and need strengthening.
English: http://www.oecd.org/newsroom/sweden-in-a-strong-position-to-integrate-refugees .
The review: http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/social-issues-migration .
Aiming to better represent members, the former federations of Education Workers (FETE-UGT), an Education International (EI) affiliate, and Public Service (PSF-UGT), affiliated with PSI and UNI, have officially merged to become FeSP-UGT. Under the merger agreement FETE is set to continue as a sector within the new federation, which includes retaining their name to recognise the union's historical significance. The sectors have also been given international relations autonomy.
English: http://www.ei-ie.org/en/news .
The workers at the logistic centre of retailer Pfeiffer in Vienna are still waiting for the finalisation of a social plan. An arbitration procedure started after the first negotiations in December 2015 failed. Services trade union Vida is very critical about the company's approach and says the company is not taking its social responsibility. Pfeiffer has proposed to settle the dismissal of 209 workers through individual assistance in the search for a new job, instead of a collective social plan.
German: http://www.vienna.at/gewerkschaftskritik-an-zielpunkt-mutter-pfeiffer .