The 120,000 workers in the hospital sector have a new collective agreement. The agreement, which follows heated negotiations, will raise wages of the lowest paid workers by 6.5% over the next 34 months. After 10 rounds of negotiations, talks broke down in January when trade unions refused the hospitals' final wage offer of 1.5%. Following an extended strike threat, negotiations were resumed and les to a new deal in March. The new collective agreement will run retroactively from 1 March 2014 to 31 December 2016. Workers receive a 1.5% wage increase per 1 January 2015 and a once-only payment of 0.5% with a minimum of €400 in July 2015. In 2016, workers will receive a structural increase of 1.5% as of 1 January as well as a once-only payment of 0,5% with a minimum of €125.
English: http://www.epsu.org/a/11280
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The negative effects of unemployment are well-documented. Depression, anxiety, substance abuse and low self-esteem are just some of the consequences of being out of work, especially over a long period of time. The initiative Psicología Solidaria aims to help people combat those feelings. The free counselling service put together by psychologists, community workers and social workers was born in 2013 to offer support to Madrid's unemployed.
English: http://www.equaltimes.org/counselling-service-offers-crucial ...
The government said that a program to cut the number of employees in the public sector would most probably be adopted in April, and it could be anywhere between 7,000 and 15,000 in 2015. The program, which is prepared in cooperation with the World Bank, would establish precisely the numbers to be cut in all branches.
English: http://inserbia.info/today/2015/03/udovicki-public-sector-to-be-cut-by-15000 ...
Eurostat revealed that women earned on average 16.4% less than men in the European Union in 2013, with the gap even greater in many northern countries. At 29.9%, the biggest salary gap was in Estonia, followed by Austria at 23%, the Czech Republic at 22.1% and Germany at 21.6%. Eurostat published the figures ahead of International Women's Day on Sunday. The gap between women and men is not just in pay. Two thirds of the directors, executives and managers are men, while two thirds of office workers are women.
English: http://www.aquila-style.com/focus-points/global-snapshots/women-earn-16-4-percent ...
Data from the statistical office reveal that women have successfully caught up in education and employment in the past decades. In 2012/13, 58.7% of all high school graduates were female. The employment rate of women aged 15 to 64 years rose from 61.6% (2003) to 67.6% (2013). Yet, the increase in female employment is mostly due to a rise in part-time work. There has been a slight decrease in the gender pay gap. In 2013, the average gross hourly earnings of women were by 23.0% lower than those of men, while in 2006 this difference had been 25.5%.
English: http://www.statistik.at/web_en/dynamic/press/081122
Workers started a strike at Yazaki, a manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment and one of the biggest factories in the Yambol vicinity. The reasons behind the strike are violations of the labour code as registered by the labour inspectorate and a lack of effective results after a series of negotiations with the employer. Trade union KT Podkrepa stated that the demands of the workers in the factory include a 50% increase in salaries, implementation of `effectiveness bonus', based on outstanding results, removal of discriminatory practices, including not paying bonuses if three sick leave days are taken by the employee, implementation of supplementary payments for three-shift work days, as well as facilitating trade union activities.
English: http://www.novinite.com/articles ...
According to a survey commissioned by trade union confederation SAK the country's labour market system whereby trade unions, employers' organisations and the government negotiate and agree on major issues receives a clear endorsement from the population. More than three-quarter of the respondents backed up the existing tripartite system. A similar result was revealed in another survey, commissioned by the union Akavas Special Branches.
English: http://www.sak.fi/english/news/finns-support-tripartite-labour-market ...
The statistical office published data on the average salaries. The average monthly net salary in the country is 5,716 kuna (745 euros), well below the average in many developed nations. The average monthly paid off net earnings per person in paid employment in legal entities was 2.9% (nominal) and 3.4% (real) higher in December 2014, than it was compared to December 2013. Jobs with an average of less than 4,000 kuna (520 euros) were those in the service industry, wood manufacturing, administration and furniture retail.
English: http://www.croatiaweek.com/tag/salary/
Negotiators of the KOVO trade union and the bus transport association ZAD agreed on a guaranteed pay-rise of 2.5 percent in bus transport (see our January Newsletter). The agreement managed to avert the strike alert and the threat of general strike planned for future. The percentage rise amounts to €22 per employee per month on average.
English: http://spectator.sme.sk/c/20056356/union-scraps-strike-alert-after-pay-rise ...
The Labour Cost Index (AKI) for the private sector in December 2014 was 116.6 for wage-earners and 118.3 for salaried employees. Compared to December 2013, labour costs have increased by 2.3 percent for wage-earners and 3.0 percent for salaried employees. The statistical office has updated the 2008 to 2014data.
English: http://www.scb.se/en_/Finding-statistics/Statistics-by-subject-area/Labour ...