Parliament will vote on a pension reform agreement that has the support of all employers' federations as well as of trade union confederations SAK and STTK, but not of the Confederation of Unions for Professional and Managerial Staff. Under the proposed system, the pension age will be raised in increments from 63 to 65 years of age for people born after 1955. The upper age limit for old-age pension will be five years higher than the earliest eligibility age. Under the deal, workers' pension accrual will amount to 1.5% of wages between 17 and 65 and earnings-related pension contribution will no longer be deducted from the pensionable wage. The agreement also includes rewards for continuing to work after reaching the earliest eligibility age, a new plan for partial early old-age retirement and early retirement for people working in physically or mentally demanding jobs if they have worked for at least 38 years and are at least 63 years of age.
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Doctors have announced a two hour work stoppage as issues on wages and job security remain unresolved. Health Minister Philippos Patsalis called for a last-minute meeting to avoid the work stoppage, arguing that all issues are either resolved or being addressed. However, doctors claim they have been misled before, when the same minister promised that everything would be resolved by September.
English: http://cyprus-mail.com/2014/11/14/crunch-meeting-on-doctors-strike/
Kazova Workers, a group of textile workers who launched an occupation protest after being fired with no repartitions or deserved wages in early 2013 and obtained their own factory machines after months of struggle, have formed a cooperative. The court had ruled that their former employers had to hand them their machines in return to unpaid salaries. The cooperative will continue to produce sweaters and also open a workshop and factory. The goal is to start producing as soon as possible.
English: http://bianet.org/english/labor/159950-kazova-workers-now-struggle-to-launch ...
Workers in social services have new collective agreements. The agreements with negotiated by unions Sanitas, Columna and Publisind, who agreed on a monthly minimum wage in the sector of RON975 (?220) and constitutes a wage hike of RON100. The agreements also cover employment conditions, including wages, working time and holidays, job protection, continuous professional training as employers' responsibility, consultation with the union in case of changes in the organisation and much more.
English: http://www.epsu.org/a/10935
Staff at the Hotel Le Royal may be laid off before the end of the year due to renovations that will be taking place between December 2014 and September 2015. Management of the five star hotel said the works are necessary and denied rumours that a quarter of its staff may be made redundant, stating a maximum of five per cent of employees will be laid off.
English: http://www.wort.lu/en/business/hotel-le-royal-renovations ...
Staff at the retail and office sector of the LO trade union confederation have announced they will be taking strike action. Roughly 150 employees will go on strike, claiming that their colleagues in other LO unions earn higher wages for the same work. The strike will be the first in the history of the LO union confederation.
English: http://www.newsinenglish.no/2014/11/13/unions-own-staff-to-go-on-strike/
Home care workers organised a protest, handing over a petition with over 159,000 signatures against cuts that will lead to the closure of care centres and redundancies. The Parliament is currently debating a law on long-term care, which aims to bring down costs. Nearly 3,000 home care workers gathered for the protest, demanding jobs, decent working conditions and high quality care services.
English: http://www.epsu.org/a/10929
Based on a report by the research foundation SOMO, the building workers' union FNV has accused the transport ministry's roads department (Rijkswaterstaat) of a passive attitude towards the exploitation of workers despite all the evidence of abuse. The trade union stated that the department has a variety of options to check and monitor building companies working on its behalf but fails to do so. As a major road project client, Rijkswaterstaat has in the past been repeatedly confronted with violations of the law and exploitation of construction workers on its sites, such as on the recent work on the A2 and A4 motorways.
English: http://somo.nl/news-en/social-risks-at-government-construction-projects
Teachers unions are deliberating strike action after talks over investment in education reached a deadlock. The government has said it will allot an extra three million euro for education, which falls far short of the 36 million euro investments unions say are needed to pay decent salaries
English: http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/education ...
Data of Statistik Austria reveal that in the year 2013 a total of 6 667 884 taxpayers were registered, of whom 4 272 613 were employees and 2 395 271 were pensioners. Compared with 2012, the number of taxpayers increased by 1.0%. Gross earnings rose by 2.9% to a volume of €172 576.8 million and total wage tax revenue increased by 4.8% to a volume of €25 692.5 million. In the German version data about the GINI-coefficient are provided.
English: http://www.statistik.at/web_en/dynamic/press/079309
German: http://www.statistik.at/web_de/presse/079308