The statistical yearbook contains large sections on the evolution in different industries but provides also indicators on poverty. Section 7 and 8 are on earnings and employment, with detailed figures on the structure of employment, and on average monthly pay by professional attainment, education and economic sector. The yearbook cannot directly be accessed but has to be downloaded via the homepage.
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In an in-depth article the impact of the increasingly widespread model of low-cost subsidiaries is analysed. The recent Air France-KLM dispute illustrates what the effect on labour legislation and social protection can be; expanding a low-cost subsidiary means cuts in pay and working conditions, or no expansion at all. The financial success of low-cost airlines is built on drastic cost cutting, especially when it comes to staff. In order to save on wages, social security contributions and employer contributions the use of self-employed workers as crew members is widespread.
English: http://www.equaltimes.org/the-other-side-of-low-cost ...
The trade union confederation ZSSS presented its demands for 2015 and called for a shift away from austerity toward improving the standard of living for people.
English: http://foto.sta.si/ensl ...
The Government has announced it will declare 188 state companies bankrupt, which is expected to about 5,000 job losses. The companies concerned are former state-owned enterprises that were added to the portfolio of the Privatisation Agency during the privatisation wave in the beginning of the 2000s. According to the Government, the 188 companies that will be declared bankrupt are shell companies that do not serve any function, but that are making losses.
English: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/02/us-serbia-companies ...
The 12 trade unions representing the workers at TAP Air Portugal had announced a four-day general strike over the festive period, between Christmas and New Year. Poor working conditions, and the government privatisation plans were cited by trade union representatives as the reasons for the strikes. TAP employs over 12,000 workers. Representatives of the national union of civil aviation workers (SNPVAC) submitted a petition to the parliament opposing the privatisation of the state run flag carrier and demanding a national referendum on the matter. The TAP management stated the day before the strike that the strike was averted.
English: http://portuguese-american-journal.com/travel-alert-tap-air-portugal ...
The government has finally announced an increase of the statutory minimum wage (SMI) with 0.5%. As of 1 January 2015 this will bring the minimum wage to the level of 648.6 euro. The minimum wage was frozen in 2012, increased with 0.6% in 2013 and again frozen in 2014. The trade unions have already stated in a reaction that the increase is far from what is necessary to keep pace with the purchase power that has been lost since the start of the crisis. According to UGT and CC.OO and increase with 12.5%, to the level of 725 euro, would be more appropriate.
Spanish: http://economia.elpais.com/economia/2014/12/23/actualidad ...
The labour reforms, which went to cabinet before Christmas, have been very controversial and have triggered widespread protests by organised labour. The cabinet approved key parts of the so-called Jobs Act to ease firing restrictions, extend the duration of jobless benefits and introduce a new contract type offering compensation in case of dismissal that gradually increases with seniority. According to the trade unions the reforms will undermine a fundamental labour right by softening protections against unfair dismissal and encouraging employers to fire workers `with fewer rights for everyone'. The unions have also protested against the Stability Law, which introduces a package of public spending cuts that will hit the education and health care sectors.
English: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/12/24/uk-italy-economy-reform ...
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http://www.ansa.it/english/news/politics/2014/12/23/renzi-govt-focuses-on-jobs-act-decrees ...
The largest collective agreement in the country that covers approximately 20,000 health care workers has been concluded. The medical employees' collective labour agreement that was signed at the National Conciliator in the Ministry of Social Affairs includes a wage increase. The minimum gross hourly wages of doctors, nurses and caregivers will be increased from 8 euro to 9 euro, 4.5 euro to 5 euro for nurses and from 2.6 euro to 3 euro for caregivers.
English: http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/markets_and_companies ...
Thousands of doctors went on strike to protest against a health reform modelled on Britain's NHS system, and which they say will make them victims of state red tape. The general practitioners and specialists began an eight-day walkout in protest against changes that would adopt the principle of `free at the point of delivery', a system the NHS adopted at its birth in 1948. Trade unions are also unhappy with a clause that will allow chemists to make routine vaccinations. They say that this will further reduce doctors' already low incomes. They are among the lowest paid in Western Europe.
English: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11310892/French-doctors ...
The number of unemployed persons in the community of Ventspils could increase about 25% after the planned dismissal of workers from the Ventspils zivju konservu kombinats (Ventspils Fish Cannery plant). The company's management has said that approximately 80 out of a total of 400 workers will continue to work at the cannery in January 2015, the rest will be hired on a temporary basis and officially have the status of unemployed persons.
English: http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/markets_and_companies ...