Preliminary data of the statistical office NSI for the first quarter of 2015 indicate that the total hourly labour cost rose by 6.9% compared to the first quarter of 2014. The total hourly labour cost grew by 5.6% in industry, by 8.6% in services and by 7.1% in construction. The breakdown by economic activities shows that the highest annual growths in total labour costs are recorded in `Administrative and support service activities' (15.2%), `Professional, scientific and technical activities' (12.1%) and `Arts, entertainment and recreation' (10.1%).
English: http://www.nsi.bg/sites/default .
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Journalists in South London, represented by the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) have embarked on a twelve day strike over low pay and bad working conditions at Newsquest. Despite talks having been organised for an extended period and even mediated by arbitration service ACAS, no headway has been made in negotiations. NUJ members voted in favour of strike action over pay, staffing and redundancies. The journalists are demanding a living wage, no compulsory redundancies and appropriate staffing levels.
English: https://www.nuj.org.uk/news/twelve-day-london-newsquest-strike-begins/
Trade unions and management at steel piping manufacturer Tenaris have reached an agreement that will limit redundancies at the firm. Through the use of solidarity contracts that will reduce working hours, the number of redundancies will be reduced from 406 to 301. In addition, 120 apprentices whose contracts were not expected to be renewed will be held on. The agreement includes a voluntary retirement scheme, to which workers can enter before 2020. The large majority of the remaining redundancies will hit the firm's Dalmine facility in the north of the country.
English: http://www.industriall-union.org/workers-approve-agreement .
The national health service is crumbling under the strain of austerity as health spending has been slashed in half in the last five years. Ambulance workers have been threatening to strike over unpaid overtime, with claims they have not received payments for night shifts and holidays since December 2014, meaning they have 200-500 euro less every month. So far, ambulance workers have suspended their strike as they do not want to endanger public health especially with the pressure posed by the tourist season.
English: http://www.euronews.com/2015/06/18/greece-s-ambulance-service .
According to Statistics Estonia the average monthly gross wages and salaries were 1,005 euro in 2014 and the average hourly gross wages and salaries were 6.14 euro. Compared to 2013, the average monthly gross wages and salaries increased by 5.9% and the average hourly gross wages and salaries by 7.2%. 2013 saw the fastest growth of monthly gross wages and salaries after the recession (7.0%), while in 2014 the growth of monthly gross wages and salaries slowed down.
English: http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/analytics .
According to a study by a job market portal there has been a 7% reduction in the number of persons working in Latvia who receive their salaries unofficially. Nevertheless, there are still 18% of employed persons in the country who receive their salaries `under the table', and thus no taxes and social security contributions are being paid.
English: http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/finances .
The standard of living in Croatia in 2014 was among the lowest in the EU, along with the standard of living in Romania and Bulgaria, show estimates on consumption and GDP per capita published by the EU's statistical office Eurostat. Actual Individual Consumption (AIC) is a measure of the material welfare of households. AIC per capita expressed in Purchasing Power Standards in Croatia in 2014 was as much as 41% below the EU average, according to preliminary Eurostat estimates. In 2013, it was 39% below the average.
English: http://dalje.com/en-economy/standard-of-living-in-croatia .
All employers' associations and all but two trade unions have accepted a national wage agreement that will raise wages by €16 or 0.43% per month, whichever is greater. The national wage agreement was initially concluded in October 2013 for two years and has now been extended for a third. Together with a cut in income tax for low and middle income earners, the wage pact is meant to maintain the purchasing power of workers. Two unions did not sign the agreement, transport workers' union AKT and the Finnish seafarers' union. They will negotiate their own sectoral agreements.
English: http://heikkijokinen.info/en/trade-union-news-from-finland/804-national-wage.
Trade union Ver.di and the employers in the private waste sector have concluded a new collective agreement. The agreement will raise the minimum wage to €8.94 from 1 July 2015 and to €9.10 from 1 January 2016. According to the trade union around 20,000 workers in the waste sector will profit from this increase of the minimum wage level.
German: http://www.verdi.de/themen/nachrichten .
Average monthly gross earnings for April 2015 amounted to 1,543.95 euro; compared to earnings for March 2015 they were 0.4% lower in nominal terms and 0.5% lower in real terms. Average monthly net earnings for April 2015 amounted to 1,005.52 euro; compared to earnings for March 2015 they were 0.3% lower in nominal terms and 0.4% lower in real terms. Comparison of the first four months of 2015 with the same period of 2014 shows that average monthly net earnings increased in the public sector by 0.8%, while in the private sector there was no change.
English: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en .