Healthcare trade unionists want to meet the Prime Minister over their demanded pay raise for hospital staff because the Health Ministry could not promise them such an increase. The union said it appreciated that the health minister offered a 5-percent increase in the basic pay of hospital doctors and nurses, but the unions demanded a 10-percent increase, which the minister could not meet.
English: http://praguemonitor.com/2015/08/19/healthcare-unions-want-meet-pm .
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According to a report from the Economic Council of the Labour Movement (ECLM), the vast majority of workers arriving from central and eastern Europe (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Romania and Bulgaria) work for a select group of companies within the agriculture and service industries. A small group of companies (1% of the country's total) is responsible for hiring close to two-thirds of the newly arrived labour force. The ECLM was founded in 1936 as a forum for trade union leaders and representatives of the parliamentary group of the Social Democratic Party.
English: http://cphpost.dk/news/new-non-western-foreign-labour-force-concentrated .
The report (in Danish): http://www.ae.dk/sites/www.ae.dk/files/dokumenter/analyse ...
The train drivers and workers trade unions have called for a series of strikes during September. The 24-hour strikes will probably take place on 4, 11, 14 and 15 September. The reason is a lack of progress in the negotiations on a collective bargaining agreement by rail company Renfe, as well as a failure to reach an agreement on the subject of human resources. According to the unions, hiring of large groups of workers is required to stop the deterioration of the public company, which already has plans to sell 49 percent of the company's goods and to privatise the maintenance of trains, threatening nearly 5,000 employees.
English: http://www.plenglish.com/index .
Shortly before the summer parliamentary recess, the responsible minister struck a deal with a number of trade unions for a 5% pay increase and a one-off bonus payment of €500 in the public sector. However, the FNV trade union has not signed the deal and is threatening strikes by public transport workers, teachers, tax and customs officials and prison workers. These strikes would come on top of the action already being taken by the police whose unions say the deal is made up of a 2.28% rise over two years, and 2.2% from changes to the pension policy, which may affect eventual pension payouts.
English: http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2015/08/no-more-money .
During the summer, a mobile home is transported through the country in the frame of a campaign for equal pay between men and women. Equal pay has been established by legislation in 1999, but in practice, this has never been realised. The `wage camper', a red container, is touring through the east of Switzerland and Liechtenstein with a temporary exhibition that informs about the gender wage gap and promotes equality of pay. In August, the camper is stationed in the city of Vaduz.
German: http://lohnmobil.ch/tour/fuerstentum-liechtenstein/
IBERIA baggage handlers at Malaga-Costa del Sol Airport have been called out on strike on 21 and 28 August by the UGT trade union. The trade union explained that it felt forced to call the strike in protest as more than 10 percent of staff were off sick and regardless of the hectic rhythm of work at the busy airport, nobody had been taken on to cover leaves. The workers claim bad planning on the management's part is to blame and say they are paying with their health.
English: http://www.euroweeklynews.com/3.0.15/news/on-euro-weekly-news/costa-del-sol .
The 2015 annual report of the European Jobs Monitor, which looks at employment developments over 2011-2014, reveals that the actual recovery is not based on the creation of full-time, permanent jobs. Non-standard or atypical forms of employment - part-time and temporary work, as well as self-employment - are increasingly replacing the traditional, standard employment contract. The authors used wage data to generate a ranking of jobs. The jobs were assigned to job-wage quintiles, comprising five groups of jobs. When jobs are categorised by how much they pay, full-time, permanent jobs increased only in the highest pay category and declined in all others. Atypical employment, by contrast, increased in four of the five categories, with significant growth in the top and the bottom categories (of around 500,000 jobs in each).
English: http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/sites/default/files .
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/news/spotlight-on/employment .
State owned stockings maker Polzela placed 265 of its workers on unpaid leave. The company is unable to resume operations because the Slovenian Financial Administration froze Polzela's account after the company failed to pay 500,000 euros in outstanding taxes.
English: http://www.rtvslo.si/news-in-english/polzela-has-employees-take-another-2-weeks .
The family ministry has called for local governments to use the summer to resolve the conflict on pay and working conditions with day-care and social workers so that there is no threat of further strikes. Trade unions Ver.di and GEW rejected a suggested compromise from the mediator appointed to end rolling strikes that have hit much of the country. The mediator had suggested pay increases of between 2 and 4.5% for day-care and social workers in a proposal at the end of June. While union negotiators present at the talks accepted the deal by a large majority, union members rejected it when they were polled.
English: http://www.thelocal.de/20150812/minister-calls-for-end-to-childcare-strikes
The statistical office published data over the first half of 2015. In this period, the monthly average wage rose, compared with the same period of 2014, in accommodation by 4.7% (it stood at 623 euro), sale and repair of motor vehicles by 3.7% (845 euro), transportation and storage by 3.7% (791 euro), food and beverage service activities by 2.7% (375 euro), construction by 2.4% (595 euro), industry by 2.3% (937 euro), retail trade by 2.2% (591 euro), selected market services by 0.3% (806 euro), information and communication by 0.1% (1 752 euro). It was reduced only in wholesale by 1.5% (808 euro).
English: http://spectator.sme.sk/c/20059409/salaries-increased-the-first-half-of-2015.html