The Eurofound report Social partners and gender equality in Europe assesses the role of the social partners in advancing gender equality in Europe. It explores the actions taken within the different national frameworks of industrial relations and against the ranking of the Member States on the Gender Equality Index. While the social partners can influence legislation through tripartite consultation, they primarily play a role in collective bargaining at national, sectoral and company level - and therefore can influence not only the working conditions of men and women, but also the ability to reconcile work and family life.
English: http://eurofound.europa.eu/sites/default ...
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The major trade unions organised a 24-hour general strike to protest against planned layoffs and pension reforms demanded by the country's international lenders. As a result nationwide chaos ensued as tens of thousands of workers rallied in major cities across the country. Air, rail and ferry services across the country grounded to a halt and state-run schools closed for the day. The nationwide strikes also forced hospitals and ambulance services to rely on emergency staff.
English: http://www.dw.de/tens-of-thousands-march-against-austerity-measures-in-greece ...
In one of the longest fights against the asbestos exposure of workers the public prosecutor of the Supreme Court of Cassation has overturned a Turin court decision condemning the Swiss billionaire Stephan Schmidheiny, one of the owners of Eternit Group, claiming the sentence is not applicable because of the long period of time that has passed since the crime took place. The dismissal of the accusations against the group owners is a slap to almost 3,000 victims who according to the Turin Prosecutor's office were either working at the four Italian Eternit plants in Cavagnolo, Casale Monferrato, Rubiera near Reggio Emilia and Bagnoli, near Naples, or lived near them. The decision also cancels the compensatory payments to the victims and their families. The trade unions claim that the harmful effects from asbestos exposure in many cases continue for more than 40 years and therefore have nothing to do with the timing of judicial proceedings.
English: http://www.industriall-union.org/eternit-owners-crime-judged-expired ...
http://www.france24.com/en/20141120-outrage-italy-quashes-asbestos-conviction-trial ...
Gross wages grew 5.0% in the third quarter, compared to the same period in 2013. The country's average monthly gross wages and salaries stood at 977 euro, according to the Statistic Estonia's Wages and Salaries Statistics Survey. The average hourly salary rate was 5.89 euros, a 5.6% increase. Compared to the same quarter of the previous year, real wages increased for the 13th straight quarter.
English: http://news.err.ee/v/economy ...
ING bank has announced it will be cutting its workforce by 3,000 over the next three years. Dutch media report the layoffs will concern 1700 full time jobs and 1075 part time jobs. Thousands of people have already left the bank in the wake of the financial crisis; they will now be followed by another 3,000 in a process of reorganising the bank's online services. Trade unions have reacted shocked to the size of the dismissals.
English: http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2014/11/ing-to-cut-3000-jobs ...
Dutch: http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2014/11/25/ing-schrapt-1700-voltijdbanen-en-1075 ...
PKP Cargo, the biggest railway freight company has concluded an agreement with its employee organisations to carry out a voluntary redundancy programme. PKP Cargo was in a collective dispute with its employees for a considerable time. After the dispute was resolved the company raised salaries and introduced extra bonuses. Before its Warsaw Stock Exchange debut last year it signed a 10-year agreement with employee representatives.
English: http://www.thenews.pl/1/12/Artykul/188343,PKP-Cargo-prepares-voluntary ...
Parliament is discussing a draft law that imposes equal pay for temporary workers as well as a cap on temporary assignments. The law, if adopted, would give temporary agency workers the same wages as permanent workers if they do the same work. In cases where temp workers earn less, the law makes the temp agencies liable for paying the missing amount. The law includes a 24-month and five contract cap, preventing companies from employing someone for several years without offering a permanent position.
English: http://www.staffingindustry.com/eng/Research-Publications/Daily-News/Slovakia ...
Insecure, low-paid jobs are leaving record numbers of working families in poverty, with two-thirds of people who found work in 2013 taking jobs for less than the living wage, according to the latest annual report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, written by the New Policy Institute. The report focuses on money, housing, work, benefits and services, among other indicators. The key points are highlighted in an infographic and summary. Though the number of unemployed for over a year decreased for the first time in a decade and unemployment fell by 300,000 in 2013, wages have fallen, for men and women, working full and part time, for low and high earners.
English: http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/monitoring-poverty-and-social-exclusion-2014
Hopes of a raise in the minimum wage were disappointed this week when the head of the interim parliamentary committee on budget and finance Menda Stoyanova said that no proposals to raise the minimum wage were on the agenda and that the 2015 budget that is being adopted is based on the current level. The minimum wage is currently BGN340 (?173) per month and is the lowest in the EU. The Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB) has demanded the minimum wage be raised to BGN400.
English: http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=164980
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A robust growth of the minimum wage, an extension of higher collective agreements and changes in temporary employment are the developments with the biggest impact on the labour market in 2014. A revision of the law on collective bargaining, valid as of the beginning of 2014, has reintroduced the extension of higher-level collective agreements to all businesses in a given sector that have not signed individually. The Confederation of Trade Unions (KOZ) praises the revision, pointing out that workers sheltered by collective agreements have 17-19 percent higher wages compared to those who work for employers where such agreements are not signed.
English: http://spectator.sme.sk/articles/view/55902/3/more_pro_employee_measures ...