The terminals stayed empty as bus drivers at the OASTH transport company walked off the job in protest at payment delays. Workers and the trade union claimed that a demand for overdue back pay has been ignored by the Finance Ministry.
English: http://www.demotix.com/news/8627295/thessaloniki-bus-drivers-go-strike .
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The sixteenth edition of Social policy in the European Union: state of play has a triple ambition. The book, compiled by the Observatoire Social Européenne (OSE), provides easily accessible information to a wide audience about recent developments in both EU and domestic social policymaking. The volume provides also a more analytical reading, embedding the key developments of the year 2014 in recent academic discourses. Third, the forward-looking perspective of the book aims to provide stakeholders and policymakers with specific tools that allow them to discern new opportunities to influence policymaking. The book cites that `modernisation' of collective bargaining has become `a widely used euphemism that, in practical terms, points to a higher political pressure (for) wage restraint and ... more decentralized wagesetting mechanisms'. The result has been `a Troika for everyone'. The impact of `structural reforms' has been in many countries a rapid growth of a low-wage sector with weak unionisation and little or no collective bargaining.
English: http://www.etui.org/Publications2/Books/Social-policy-in-the-European-Union .
A bill amending the current labour law has reached the Chamber of Deputies, which will analyse it, after the Senate voted in favour of it. The amendment was introduced by the local unions, which gathered more than 130,000 signatures on the issue. According to the bill, employees that have been selected through competition will not have to go through a probation period anymore. Individual performance goals and evaluation criteria can be set only through collective bargaining. The proposal also removes the lack of performance from collective layoffs.
English: http://www.romania-insider.com/romanias-labor-code-significant-changes .
Trade unions negotiators have signed an agreement with the health minister that includes a pay increase for health care workers calculated over 4 years. Earlier on thousands of nurses and midwives had joined a demonstration in Warsaw to demand faster wage rises. The Health Ministry first offered to raise the wages by PLN 1,200 (285 euro) over a four-year period. The nurses and midwives, organised in the National Trade Union of Nurses and Midwives (OZZPiP), demanded a raise of PLN 1,500 (357 euro) over three years. The average wage of a Polish nurse is currently PLN 3,277 (780 euro) per month. The compromise that was settled gives the workers a pay increase of PLN 1,600 (380 euro) over a four-year period.
English: http://www.thenews.pl/1/12/Artykul/222175,Compromise-signed .
The report Indkomster 2013 (Earnings 2013) from Statistics Denmark reveals that only Luxembourgers take home higher post-tax incomes than the Danes do. Nevertheless, once national price levels enter the picture, both Swedes and Austrians, who can get more for their money despite their lower incomes, outpace the purchasing power. According to other data, the average citizen earned 206,800 kroner (27,700 euro) after taxes in 2014, significantly higher than the EU-28 average of 115,400 kroner (15,500 euro). The report also signals significant differences in the earning power of immigrants.
English: http://www.thelocal.dk/20150922/danes-purchasing-power-doesnt-match .
The report (in Danish): http://www.dst.dk/Site/Dst/Udgivelser/GetPubFile .
In an OECD study, Skills Strategy Diagnostic Report for Spain 2015, it is concluded that he share of youths neither in employment, nor education or training (NEET) ranks near the top of the OECD, surpassed only in Mexico, Greece and Italy. The 278-page report identifies 12 `skills challenges' for Spain as it strives to recover from the protracted economic crisis. `Youth NEET are at risk of becoming long-term unemployed and more difficult to integrate in the future.' As usual the OECD criticises the former centralisation of collective bargaining and sectoral provisions, because this makes `layoffs the primary mechanism of adjustment' by firms. Remarkable is that the organisation puts a strong emphasis on vocational training and qualification without recognising the benefit of collectively agreed, industry-wide training provisions.
English: http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/09/22/inenglish .
http://skills.oecd.org/developskills/documents/Spain_Diagnostic_Report.pdf
According to the results of the quarterly survey of earnings, the index of nominal earnings rose 3.2% from the second quarter of 2014 to the second quarter of 2015. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that this led to a 2.7% rise in the index of real earnings. This was the largest increase since this time series had first been compiled in 2008. The strongest increases on a pre-inflation, or nominal basis, were in eastern Germany and in the unskilled, low-wage sector.
English: http://www.rte.ie/news/business/2015 .
Report (in German): https://www.destatis.de/DE/PresseService ...
Employees of online retailer Amazon have gone on strike again. Trade union representatives said they were determined to continue their industrial action in several logistics hubs. The labour dispute at Amazon has been going on for more than two years. The company has offered a 2.5% pay increase. However, trade union Ver.di demands a collective agreement for Amazon's 10,000 employees, similar to the agreement for workers in the country's retail sector. Until today Amazon has refused to talk about a binding agreement with Ver.di.
English: http://www.dw.com/en/amazon-workers-go-on-strike-in-germany .
The government is working on a change to pension laws that would let women retire three years early, at 62-63, while taking a 10% pension cut. The change would take effect in 2016. The government has promised to overhaul an unpopular 2011 pension law, framed by then labour minister Elsa Fornero, that raised the pension age to 66 for both men and women. The government is also looking at a plan to offer men early retirement. A special problem is the problem of the 'esodati' (exiled ones) - people who were left without pay or a pension after leaving jobs, as under the old rules, they were eligible to retire.
English: http://www.ansa.it/english/news/politics/2015/09/24/poletti-promises .
The steep decline in the price of oil has already cost thousands of jobs and triggered uncertainty among workers. More than 20,000 people already have lost their jobs in oil and oil supply companies. Early this month oil service firm Aker Solutions announced that as many as 500 employees will be losing their jobs, mostly in the subsea operations. This was followed by a message that between 500 and 800 employees of the oil service company MHWirth in Kristiansand may lose their jobs. MHWirth is owned by the investment company Akastor, in which industrial firm Aker has nearly a 35 percent stake. Because of the low energy prices, also coalmines are confronted with financial problems.
English: http://www.newsinenglish.no/2015/09/21/aker-firm-may-cut-another-800-jobs/
http://www.newsinenglish.no/2015/09/02/coping-with-a-necessary-crisis/