The so-called `chômage partiel' scheme allows companies to save labour costs, with workers compensated for lost wages by the state. The cost-cutting method was increasingly used in recent months; over 2,600 employees worked reduced hours during December. However, this number is to halve next month. The state economic committee approved 20 requests by companies to place employees under reduced working hours; only 1,227 workers will be affected by the measure. This will mark the first dip in the number of workers placed under reduced working hours since August 2014, when 844 people worked reduced hours.
English: http://www.wort.lu/en/business/chomage-partiel-number-of-people ...
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A survey by the Chamber of Commerce shows that almost half of the employers intend to raise their employees' wages in 2015. The employers quote increasing profits and economic growth as the reason for the wage hikes. Larger companies and employers in manufacturing, building and services most often said they were planning to raise wages. The average intended wage hike was 3%.
English: http://www.radio.cz/en/section/business/economic-growth-spurs-wage-hikes
The average wage in November increased at an annual pace of 2.7%, according to figures that were revealed by the Central Statistical Office (GUS). Wage growth fell short of analyst expectations of a roughly flat pace of expansion from previous month's 3.8%. The average wage broke the barrier of PLN 4,000 (950 euro) per month for the first time ever in November after rising 0.6% on the previous month to PLN 4,004.80.
English: http://www.thenews.pl/1/12/Artykul/190788,Polands-average-wage-up ...
http://stat.gov.pl/en/topics/other-studies/informations-on-socio-economic-situation ...
The advice and support workers of housing charity Shelter are angry over the imposition of a new pay scale at the charity leading to pay cuts of up to £5,000 for new starters, with the pay of current frontline staff only being guaranteed until 2016. Therefore the trade union Unite announced that 400 of its members would be walking out. The action was suspended following talks. The Shelter management came with a fresh offer which includes improved rates of pay for new starters and the withdrawal of controversial proposals to review existing staff pay in 2015.
English: http://www.unitetheunion.org/news/shelter-strike-suspended-following-breakthrough ...
http://www.unitetheunion.org/news/three-day-strike-over-pay-cuts-to-hit ...
A 24-hour general strike on 15 December brought the country to a standstill. The strike, as the culmination of a month of rolling strikes and actions, was organised to protest against the large scale austerity measures proposed by the government. Austerity measures being proposed include a wage freeze, including an end to indexation of wages and a ban on collective wage bargaining for the next two years. The government also proposes to raise the pension age to 67 by 2030, reduce unemployment and pension benefits and to increase costs of childcare, health care and education. At the same time, the proposals include a wealth transfer to business of 4 billion euros, through cuts in employer contributions to social security.
English: http://www.industriall-union.org/national-general-strike-in-belgium-rejects-austerity
The provisional report on collective bargaining in 2014 reveals that most sectoral negotiations resulted in wage increases in a range between 2 and 4%, with a majority in between 3 and 3.5%. This would bring the real wage increase of workers falling under the agreements to an average of 2%. The report quotes the wage development in several industries and notes that some industries introduced minimum wages scales.
German: http://www.boeckler.de/pdf ...
Focus on the 2014 Monthly Reports on Wage Policy (in German): http://www.boeckler.de/pdf/p ...
Workers on zero-hours contracts earn nearly £300 a week less than permanent employees. This is the conclusion in a TUC-report. The trade union confederation based its report on unpublished data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Average weekly earnings for zero-hour workers are £188, compared with £479 for permanent staff. The ONS has estimated there are 1.4 million contracts with no guaranteed minimum hours. The publication of the report The Decent Jobs Deficit: The Human Cost of Zero-Hours Working and Casual Labour marked the beginning of the TUC's Decent Jobs Week.
English: http://www.bbc.com/news/business ...
http://www.tuc.org.uk/sites/default/files/DecentJobsDeficitReport.pdf
The trade union of tobacco industry workers has organised a full-day demonstration against the government's new measures affecting the industry. Some 1,200 employees in tobacco sales and logistics positions will be affected by the government's amendments which seek to place a middleman between retailers and wholesalers on the market with a monopoly of state-licenced tobacco retailers.
English: http://www.politics.hu/20141211/tobacco-union-to-stage-demo-against-govt-changes/
In a global labour column the effect of the austerity policy as dictated by the Troika is analysed. As a result of the Memorandum of Understanding with the Troika (May 2011), of the social pact (January 2012), of the changes in the labour legislation (Law 23/2012, in force since August 1, 2012), there is a series of threats that are being imposed on the trade union movement. This has been enhanced by the crisis: individualisation of labour relations and destructive collective hiring; weakening of the power of unions in social dialogue; reduction in the rights and duties regulated by collective bargaining, which is attested by the abrupt drop in the issuing of `extension decrees' from 101 in 2009 to 9 in 2013.
English: http://column.global-labour-university.org/2014/12/austerity-policies ...
The lifting of heavy loads at distribution centres of the retail chain Lidl has been discussed with the management. The FNV Commerce section and the management came to an agreement based on a report with recommendations that was published in May 2014. It will lead to the abolition of the existing performance standard system, to health and safety training for management and workers, to the introduction of mechanical equipment for the lifting of heavy loads and to the supply of protective clothing.
Dutch: http://www.fnv.nl/over-fnv/pers ...
http://www.fnv.nl/site/over-de-fnv/perskamer ...