The government is again raising the pay for medical staff just before the upcoming parliamentary elections. Hospitals are to receive an additional €86 million this year and the health sector should have an additional €55 million in 2016 for pay hikes. Medical workers and trade unions, however, do not see the proposals as solving larger issues and some are preparing to protest. Their main objections are that the pay hike does not cover medical staff in all kinds of facilities and that the remuneration scheme does not reflect a person's years of experience.
English: http://spectator.sme.sk/c/20060521/medical-workers-pay-to-increase.html
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An early retirement scheme, introduced in 2003 and considered one of the country's signal social successes, is in danger because of a contributions shortfall. More than 13,000 construction workers have taken advantage of the scheme since the start by taking their pensions from the age of 60. The influx of baby boomers retiring means the plan needs extra funds to avoid going in the red. Trade unions have criticised that construction companies are not acting to deal with this development. Statistics show that more than 40% of the construction workers either fall ill or die prematurely by the time they reach 65 because of their job demands.
English: http://www.thelocal.ch/20150921/construction-workers-early-retirement-in-peril
Millions of citizens are scraping by on benefits, family handouts or working cash-in-hand as they wait for the apparent economic rebound to create the hundreds of thousands of jobs the government is promising. Observers see that jobs are being created - but the problem is that many of them only last a few days. The unemployment rate remains extremely high at more than 22%. One in every two eligible workers under the age of 25 is out of work. The conservative government passed in 2012 reforms making it easier for firms to hire and fire as part of his austerity reforms. Trade unions dispute the diagnosis that this will lead to decent job creation.
English: http://www.thelocal.es/jobs/article/spains-economic-recovery-masks .
According to the government's website, the prime minister, together with the Austrian chancellor and Germany's vice-chancellor, has put the finishing touches to a plan to push for an EU treaty amendment to strengthen the rights of wage-earners. The politicians - all social democrats from their respective countries - along with the Swedish Trade Union Confederation and its German and Austrian counterparts, have discussed `work to ensure decent conditions in the European labour market.' They want to see more of a balance between freedom and rights, and believe that market economies, growth and the free movement of people, capital, and goods and services, must not be more important than robust social rights.
English: http://www.thelocal.se/20150919/swedish-premier-in-push-for-union-rights
During a meeting with the government, it became clear that doctors and other health workers will see their pay rise by the previously envisaged 5 percent as from January 2016. The trade unions wanted to push through a higher pay rise. According to the government the sum the state will pay to health insurers for selected groups of people, including children, students, pensioners and the disabled, does not make a steeper pay rise possible. The trade unions said this decision may cause the staff to leave hospitals and pointed to Slovakia's decision to raise the monthly pay of nurses by 17 percent, i.e. 200 to 300 euros, as from 2016.
English: http://praguemonitor.com/2015/09/18/health-unions .
Following a conflict between nurses and hospital management in which 251 nurses handed in their resignations (reported in the last newsletters) radiologists at the National University Hospital of Iceland (Landspítali) have threatened to resign unless working conditions improve. Whereas half of the nurses who handed in their notices have withdrawn their resignation following last month's pay deal, a third of the radiologists have now handed in theirs. Landspítali and the radiologists are in last minute talks to prevent a wave of resignations on 1 September.
English: http://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/politics_and_society/2015/09/14 .
http://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/politics_and_society/2015/08/27 .
After being confronted with a series of unlawful violations, sacked for protesting, forced to work double shifts and spied on through social media the country's automotive workers and their trade unions have appealed to a major lender to their employers, the publicly-funded European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, to uphold its commitments. The EBRD is now at the centre of the dispute, with workers at three companies saying the actions of their bosses contradict the bank's promise to honour to labour rights. In a letter, the bank is asked to intervene against union busting and the lack of collective bargaining.
English: http://theblacksea.eu/index.php .
The statistical office published updated 2013 figures for the total workforce and the average wages. The calculated monthly average wage for men was 3,356 euro. Women earned 7% less and the gender pay gap did not change compared to 2012. In the Flemish community the average monthly wage in 2013 was 3,243 euro (2012: 3,196 euro), in the Walloon community it amounted 3,103 euro (2012: 3,058 euro). The Brussels average was substantially higher, 3,813 euro (2012: 3,780 euro).
Dutch: http://bestat.economie.fgov.be/BeStat .
French: http://bestat.economie.fgov.be/BeStat .
UBS released the 16th edition of its UBS Prices and Earnings study, which examines prices, wages and earners' purchasing power in 71 cities worldwide. The study, published roughly every three years since 1971, compiles over 68,000 data points reflecting economic events. The 2015 edition of the Prices and Earnings study is available on a new website, which for the first time also offers free access to all raw data collected from the first report in 1971 up to 2015.
English: www.ubs.com/pricesandearnings
https://www.ubs.com/microsites/prices-earnings/edition-2015.html
Banking trade union ETYK has threatened to escalate industrial action at Hellenic Bank after asking members to refrain from overtime work at the lender, citing the bank's decision to appoint managers without union approval. The union's reaction was also related to a number of pending issues following last year's renewal of the collective agreement by the bank, which withdrew from the Cyprus Bankers Employers' Association and to the operating hours and loans to staff. The union stated that workers are determined to continue until the directors of Hellenic Bank respect staff, existing agreements and labour institutions.
English: http://cyprusbusinessmail.com .