Multinational food giant Nestlé has announced a new policy around maternity provisions to apply to all its international and national operations. In meetings surrounding global agreements, trade union IUF has repeatedly asked for better maternity provisions. Nestlé now announced it will be adhering to the standards of the ILO Maternity Protection Convention (C183), guaranteeing amongst others the right to 14 weeks of paid maternity leave.
English: http://www.iuf.org/w .
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Eurofound published a report outlining different dimensions of persisting gender inequality in the labour market. The report is part of a European Commission consultation on gender equality. In the report, researchers point the large gender pay gap and unequal care tasks, as well as issues like sexual harassment and discrimination.
English: http://www.epsu.org/IMG/pdf/gender_equality_in_the_eu .
Teachers and researchers organised a demonstration in Lisbon to sound their commitment to professional and quality education, warning reforms in the past years have made that harder to deliver. Budget cuts have left schools with 3.2 billion and 20% lower staff levels. Teachers report their work pressure has increased tremendously, as they teach more hours, have to take on additional non-teaching tasks and receive less training.
English: http://www.ei-ie.org/en/news .
Health care workers staged a protest outside of parliament demand a significant pay hike. The protestors, who turned out on their sector-wide free day to express their concern, demand living wages. The nurses also presented a petition, allegedly signed by several hundred of them, declaring they will quit their jobs unless wages significantly increase by 30 September.
English: http://www.politics.hu/20150702/health-care-workers-demonstrate-for-higher-wages .
After months of wage conflict, including nine crippling strikes, an agreement was reached for train drivers at Deutsche Bahn. After a year of conflict, political players volunteered to mediate the dispute that had been causing large-scale inconvenience to commuters. An agreement was now reached, including a €350 one-off payment, a 4.5% wage increase per 1 July and another 1.6% by 1 May 2016.
English: http://www.dw.com/en/deutsche-bahn-ends-wage-conflict-with-train-drivers .
Trade union JHL and the employers' organisations for municipal and central government have signed a collective agreement, following the terms of the national wage agreement that was reached in June. In accordance with the agreement, base salaries will be raise by €16 per month for salaries up to €3404.26 and by 0.43% for salaries above that threshold. Fees paid by to the shop stewards and industrial safety delegates will also be raised by 0.43 per cent.
English: http://www.jhl.fi/portal/en.
Parliament has adopted amendments to the labour code that approve the use of one-day labour contracts for seasonal agricultural work. The amendments were criticised as reinstating and legitimating the practice of day labourers, as well as because work done under one day contracts will not be counted towards the worker's labour experience. Proponents, however, argue that the law provides workers access to full insurance, health care and retirement benefits. Workers will not be allowed to be employed on one-day contracts for more than 90 consecutive days.
English: http://www.novinite.com/view .
Trade unions vida and GPA-djp have negotiated new provisions with the Diakonie church welfare organisations that are expected to raise wages and holiday entitlements for its 6000 employees. The provisions related mainly to the calculation of service-related pay and conditions. In the new agreement, a maximum of 22 months of parental leave will be taken into account when calculating pay and benefits, as will 50% of work experience in unrelated occupations up to eight years. The provisions are to raise wages across the board and help women in particular.
English: http://www.epsu.org/a/11580
German: http://www.vida.at/servlet ...
After progress in the negotiations on the airline's pension scheme the Lufthansa flight attendants have postponed a planned strike until mid-July at the earliest. Lufthansa had been facing a 30 June deadline to make concessions to cabin crew regarding improved pensions and higher pay or potentially deal with a strike during the busy summer holiday season. The trade union will wait for the talks in the next weeks, whether it gets to the point where a collective agreement can be concluded that can permanently avert the strikes.
English: http://www.dw.com/en/ufo-cancels-planned-lufthansa-strike .
Deutsche Post and trade union Ver.di have agreed to return to the negotiating table after four weeks of strikes by postal workers. After organising large scale protests, as reported in last month's newsletter, workers at Deutsche Post went on strike. The workers are protesting against a reform which would have thousands of colleagues re-employed at regional subsidiaries for lower wages. The trade union claims that the postal giant breached its collective bargaining agreement with its 140,000 workers regarding the outsourcing of work, by splitting operations into 49 regional delivery companies to avoid the terms of a national agreement. The workers have also asked for a one-off €500 payment to every worker in 2015 and a pay rise of 2.7 percent next year. Deutsche Post rejected all proposals, arguing the company is making losses and is not in a position to raise wages.
English: http://postandparcel.info/65953/news/companies/deutsche-post .