The government had to respond to an interpellation of several members of parliament on the lack of transparency in the tax files in relation to income inequality. According to the government's formal answers, the tax registration and statistics are rather complete and in line with the applicable tax laws. The government adds that these data particularly can be used as building blocks for financial decisions. However, the data are neither suitable for social policy nor can be seen as a welfare indicator.
German: http://www.volksblatt.li/nachricht ...
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The country's biggest insurance group RSA has agreed a 2% pay increase for the majority of its staff in the Republic following an agreement with the trade union Unite. The pay rise will take effect in June 2016 and will apply to some 360 out of 410 staff employed by the company here. It is understood that the rise will not apply to senior executives. This will be the first increase in pay for staff since 2012 and reflects the fact that RSA expects to return to profitability in 2016 after three years of heavy losses following the emergence of financial issues in 2013 that rocked the business. This rise will not apply to RSA's operation in Northern Ireland nor will it apply to staff in 123.ie, its Dublin-based subsidiary.
English: http://www.irishtimes.com/business/financial-services/majority-of-rsa-staff .
Two policy viewpoints, published by the FEPS, assess the effect of a system of active labour market policy. Active labour market policies can affect the quality and the duration of the employment following a period of unemployment. According to the first paper there is evidence that education is a good investment for the individual and for society as a whole. That is also true, when it comes to unemployed. A group of experts looked into the system and came with a number of suggestions for improvement. They recommend, for instance, that unemployed obtain relevant skills instead of just a formal set of skills. The second paper reveals that even if the activation programs fail to reduce the economic inequality in some cases, they will reduce inequality in the sense that they include some of the weakest people of society in other ways.
English: http://www.feps-europe.eu/assets .
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BTB, ACV Transcom and ACLVB have campaigned together with the Belgian ITF Inspectors on the vessel COSCO Fengei in the port of Antwerp to find out if the wages of the crew members were in line with the international standards. This was not the case, neither an ITF agreement was in place. For this reason all cargo handling on the vessel was stopped for several hours.
English: https://www.facebook.com/ITFDockers/photos .
According to Statistics Austria's Job Vacancy Survey enterprises reported for the whole year 2015 an annual average of 66,600 job vacancies (2014: 62,400). 57% of these vacancies also have been reported to the Public Employment Service. Compared to the previous year, vacancies increased by 6.7%. Most vacancies were reported in services and retail, technical jobs and manufacture. Almost 40% of the vacancies belonged to the category of unskilled jobs. Around 20% of the offered jobs were low-paid (below 1000 euro a month), with another 30% below a monthly wage of 1,700 euro (more details in the German text).
English: http://www.statistik.at/web_en/press/106947.html
German: http://www.statistik.at/web_de/presse/106946.html
Along with the company's fourth quarter figures the oil and gas giant Shell presented plans to cut some 10 thousand jobs. The management announced the start of a new chapter in Shell, rejuvenating the company, and improving shareholder returns. The company is cutting investment by cancelling or postponing projects and slashing costs; around 2,800 jobs are going as a direct result of the Shell/BG merger.
English: http://www.bbc.com/news/business .
The number of active welfare benefits keeps growing. In 2015 around 450 thousand people received welfare benefits, 16 thousand more than in 2014. The increase can almost completely be attributed to over-45-year-olds and under-27-year-olds. By far the largest group of new welfare recipients consisted of people over the age of 45 last year. A massive 11 thousand people in this age group started receiving welfare benefits. According to Statistics Netherlands, people in this age group face many difficulties on the labour market and often have trouble to get off of welfare and back to work. The second largest group of newcomers to welfare last year were young people up until the age of 27, increasing with 4 thousand.
English: http://www.nltimes.nl/2016/02/29/young-people-over-45s-increasingly-need .
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions revealed it had found overwhelming support for its Charter for Fair Conditions at Work among political parties, with Labour, Sinn Fein, Fianna Fail, the Social Democrats and Socialist deputies signing up, while there was little or no support in either Fine Gael or Renua. The Congress Charter for Fair Conditions at Work sets out five key principles to help make decent work a reality: a Living Wage, Fair Hours of Work, the Right to Union Representation, the Right to Respect in the workplace and Fair Public Procurement. Included is the statement: Collective Bargaining is a Human Right.
English: http://www.ictu.ie/press/2016/02/04/huge-support-for-fair-conditions-at-work .
Visit the Charter pages: http://www.ictu.ie/charter
The Health Service Executive has agreed to enter talks to discuss knock-on claims to extend benefits awarded to nurses in a deal to address emergency department overcrowding to other grades. The HSE and the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation negotiated the proposals at the Workplace Relations Commission to avert a nurses' strike over understaffing and overcrowding in hospital Emergency Departments. That deal provided for a €1,500 training bursary, two extra days leave in 2016 and 2017, as well as additional promotional posts. Industrial observers had forecast that other health unions whose members were also experiencing difficult conditions in EDs were likely to submit claims for similar benefits. The HSE has agreed to set up a parallel process of talks with the three excluded unions - and to discuss extending representation on the Emergency Department Task Force Implementation Group to include them.
English: http://www.rte.ie/news .
Trade union GPA-dpj declared it yielded for its members 88.7 million euro in 2015 through the use of the union's legal assistance activities. The most substantial part of this amount (more than 72 million euro) came from returns that can be attributed to the concluded social plans. The active legal assistance includes interventions at plant level, representation before the labour and social courts, but also legal aid in cases of enforcement proceeding, bankruptcy and compensation pay. The total of social plans increased in 2015; for the union this is a sign that serious economic problems still exist.
German: http://www.oegb.at/cms .