The Chamber of Deputies voted against a reduction of the social security contributions. The Government initially planned to cut the social contributions from 10.5% to 7.5% for the employee and from 15.8% to 13.5% for the employer, starting 2017. The flat tax reduction from 16% to 14% starting 2019 was voted down as well.
English: http://www.romania-insider.com/no-flat-tax-social-contribution-reductions .
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Subway workers in Lisbon are continuing a series of strikes against the looming privatisation of the network. The second strike in just over a week Friday closed services and came days after the centre-right government announced Spain's Grupo Avanza had won the bidding to run the Metropolitano de Lisboa. The strike was the eight in 2015 and is motivated by concerns over pay and working conditions, as well as the quality of services delivered, as a consequence of the privatisation of the subway.
English: http://www.timesunion.com/news/world/article/Lisbon-subway-shuts-again .
Trade unions representing Scottish ferry workers have initiated industrial action over a tendering bid which could see west coast routes taken over by a private firm. Their members are frightened about possible job losses, cuts to their pensions and employment conditions, and reductions in services if the planned new owner Serco takes over. Trade union RMT members at CalMac began three days of industrial action, with two days of work-to-rule followed by an all-out strike. Trade union TSSA will begin a 10-day ballot of staff for industrial action on 3 July.
English: http://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/second-ferry-workers-union-joins .
The average gross monthly salaries and wages paid in May 2015 amounted to dinars 60.487 (502 euro). Compared to the average gross salaries and wages paid in April 2015, this was a decrease of 3.3% in nominal terms and of 3.0% in real terms. Compared to the average gross salaries and wages paid in May 2014, the decrease was 0.8% in nominal terms and 2.3% in real terms. The average net salaries and wages paid in May 2015 totalled 43.964 dinars (366 euro). Compared to the average net salaries and wages paid in April 2015, this was 3.6% decrease in nominal terms and 3.3% decrease in real terms.
English: http://webrzs.stat.gov.rs/WebSite/public/Publication .
Two institutes, the office for economic analysis CPB and the institute for social research, have examined how the labour market position of low-skilled workers has changed in recent years. The resulting report describes several aspects, including unemployment, poverty, precarious employment and pay. The pay gap between low-skilled and highly skilled widened between 1990 and 2005, as the hourly pay of low-skilled remained virtually flat, at around 17 euro gross (after adjustment to inflation), whilst highly skilled hourly pay increased steadily, from 24 to 31 euro gross. Moreover, low-skilled workers tend to work more than average in sectors in which competition is very heavily based on price and work is increasingly outsourced.
Dutch (with an extensive English summary): http://www.cpb.nl/publicatie/de-onderkant-van .
The Helsinki Court of Appeal has ruled that the so-called collective agreement which was concocted by employers for workers distributing unaddressed mail and free-sheet newspapers is not legally valid. The sector had, from the end of 2009, a generally binding collective agreement. Employers were unhappy with it and decided to set up their own `trade union' (called SME), composed of various directors from the major employer in this sector, Janton Corporation. In no time SME made its own `collective agreement' with the employers. The Court of Appeal has overturned an earlier decision of the District Court and has stated that SME cannot be seen as a representative trade union with a right to conclude collective agreements.
English: http://heikkijokinen.info/en/trade-union-news-from-finland/811-major-victory .
The country's highest court ruled that a public-sector wage freeze in place since 2010 was illegal. The decision will force the government in next year's budget to lift the budget for around 3.5 million workers. However, the court stopped short of ordering the government to compensate workers for raises they missed out on. Making up for five years of freezes would have cost the government around €35 billion. The wage freeze was brought in by ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi's government for a three-year period, extended by successive governments, and would have run until 2017. Trade unions have always contested the measure.
English: http://www.thelocal.it/20150625/public-sector-wage-freeze-is-illegal .
El Pais documents the destiny of today's workforce. Hundreds of thousands of people walk in and out of the Social Security offices on a daily basis. A quarter of the contracts that have been signed so far in 2015 (1,333,837 out of 5,476,901) are for less than a week's work. Only 7.9 percent of contracts signed in May were permanent. None of these temporary workers can make any plans, go on vacation, get sick, take out a mortgage or even think about accumulating enough Social Security contributions to have an adequate pension when they retire.
English: http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/06/25/inenglish .
Carmaker Tofas, owned by the Turkish Koç Holding company and major Italian automaker Fiat, has dismissed a group of workers including workers who had a prominent role in a strike in May. During a tense period for the car industry factory workers from several major automakers including Renault and Ford went on extended strikes, dealing a severe blow to the industry's production and exports. As the workers made agreements with factory management, these often included a guarantee that no one would be fired; however, news outlets reported that some of those fired now include those who participated in last month's strike. This was the reason for Metal Workers Union (MIB) calling for a new general strike of all metal workers.
English: http://en.cihan.com.tr/en/union-calls-for-resumption-of-strike .
The Central Statistics Office (GUS) has published its annual labour market report, The Demand for Labour in 2014. The report provides detailed information on the number of working persons by gender, occupations, sectors and the number and structure of vacancies, including new jobs, as well as information on lost workplaces. According to the most recent figures unemployment in May 2015 stood at 10.8%, a drop from 11.2% in April. In relative terms, unemployment was the lowest since August 2009, although the actual number of unemployed individuals is slightly higher (by 13,000).
English: http://stat.gov.pl/en/topics/labour-salaries/demand-for-labor .
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