According to the leader of the postal trade union, the Post has had five general managers in the last seven years. Every time a new manager came, he brought his own team offering them management positions and this has led to some 400-500 low-productive managerial employees along the years. Also, the Romanian Post has 100 experts who are paid over 1,500 euro per month. They are in fact former managers who wanted to keep their positions, according to the union's representative.
English: http://www.romania-insider.com/postal-union-the-romanian-post .
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Trade union confederation ÖGB has opened an office that is specialised in the juridical assistance of labour migrants (mainly Bulgarian workers). The aim is to work towards fair and decent wages and working conditions. The union has engaged a legal assistant that speaks Bulgarian. The initiative was welcomed by the Bulgarian trade union confederation as a necessary activity `especially in times of crises'.
German: http://www.oegb.at/cms .
A report by the UK Women's Budget Group for the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) shows that sustained investment of public funds in childcare and eldercare services is worthwhile and that it is more effective in reducing public deficits and debt than austerity policies. It would boost employment, earnings and economic growth as well as foster gender equality. The report indicates that investing 2 % of GDP in the caring industries would generate up to one million jobs in Italy, 1.5 million in the UK, and two million in Germany. The investment would raise women's employment rate given their greater concentration in the care industry: between 3.3 percentage points in Italy (660,000 jobs) and 1.1 million jobs the UK, and Germany (1.4 million jobs).
English: http://www.equaltimes.org/investing-in-the-care-economy .
The report: http://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/care_economy_en.pdf
The Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) published two policy briefs that deal with the impact of the application of a system of minimum wages. In the first paper, important advantages of a European minimum wage policy are listed, such as a minimum floor for wage earners and a minimum of wage protection for the low paid. The authors of the second brief find no evidence for the claim that minimum wage is a counter-productive measure as it increases labour costs, and therefore unemployment. In most cases, minimum wage has almost no effect on employment. In some cases, the effect on employment is even positive. Furthermore, a minimum wage tends to decrease wage dispersion and therefore is an efficient tool to tackle inequalities. As other labour market institutions, it can be argued that a minimum wage is part of a predistribution policy, aiming at tackling pre-tax inequalities. The case for a European-wide minimum wage is strong, according to the authors, as it minimises the adverse effects of social dumping induced by pro-competitiveness policies conducted simultaneously by most European countries.
English: http://www.feps-europe.eu/assets .
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Romanian workers at several shipyards are being paid just €1 an hour as their employers get round the rules on equal pay via staffing bureaus and other `tricks'. The workers are employed by an intermediate which deducts taxes and pension premiums in Romania under the EU's A1 ruling. The workers are paid a living allowance while working, which is not subject to tax and premiums. This means it is far cheaper for the shipyards to employ them than ordinary workers. For trade union FNV, campaigning for decent wages, the Dutch and Romanian nationals at the shipyards are colleagues, not competitors.
English: http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/03/romanians-are-being-exploited .
The labour market reform adopted in 2012 has increased labour market flexibility but also led to a growth in `precarious work'. The reform created a new open-ended contract which can be used by small and medium sized businesses for employees who are under the age of 30 which allows dismissals without justification during the first year of employment. It drastically reduced the amount of compensation that must be paid when workers are let go and allows for collective dismissals, even when a firm is not facing economic difficulties. The reform weakens workers' rights, such as a prohibition on unilaterally changing work conditions. Four years later the reform - which triggered a general strike - remains controversial.
English: http://www.expatica.com/es/news/Flexisecurity-in-Spain-Dream-for-firms .
The statistical office updated a series of labour market data over the period 1990-2016. The current unemployment (2.5%) is very low, compared to neighbouring countries. The unemployment among youngsters (15-24 year old) is substantially higher (3.8%, February 2016 data). Meanwhile, almost one quarter of the unemployed belongs to the category long-term unemployed. In absolute and relative terms the labour market has not completely recovered; the lowest unemployment level was in May 2008.
German: http://www.amsfl.li/ams/upload/downloads/entwicklung_arbeitslosigkeit_1990 .
http://www.amsfl.li/ams/upload/downloads/entwicklung_arbeitslosigkeit_12 .
http://www.amsfl.li/ams/upload/downloads/factbox_arbeitslosigkeit .
In 2015, the average monthly gross wages and salaries were 1,065 euro and the average hourly gross wages and salaries were 6.51 euro. Compared to 2014, the average monthly and hourly gross wages and salaries increased by 6.0%. The monthly gross wages and salaries were highest in the 4th quarter of 2015. Real wages, which take into account the influence of the change in the consumer price index, increased, due to the continued decrease in consumer prices, faster than the average monthly gross wages and salaries compared to the 4th quarter of 2014 (6.9%). Real wages have increased from the second half of 2011 for the eighteenth quarter in succession.
English: http://www.stat.ee/277558
In February 2016, there were demonstrations against the governments' plans to reform the country's pension system and increase taxes. The opposition to the reforms is putting pressure on Prime Minister Tsipras, who was elected for his anti-austerity promises and firm opposition to further pension cuts. It is unclear when the bill will be introduced to the parliament. The opposition to the pensions overhaul has been unanimous, bringing together a disparate group of professions, including blue-collar and white-collar workers. Doctors, engineers and lawyers - many in their suits and ties - joined the protests alongside farmers, taxi-drivers, seamen and builders, an action that has become known as the `necktie movement'.
English: http://www.equaltimes.org/no-country-for-old-greeks? .
The average youth unemployment rate fell to 40.3% in 2015 - the first time the rate for the year has fallen since 2007. The jobless rate among the country's 15 to 24 year was 2.4% lower last year than in 2014. The overall unemployment rate fell to 11.9% from 12.7% in 2014, also marking the first annual drop since 2007.
English: http://www.thelocal.it/20160310/italys-youth-jobless-rate-falls-for-first-time .