The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) published a report on health issues in the health care sector in Europe. The report, Current and emerging issues in the healthcare sector, including home and community care, highlights the negative consequences of long working hours in the sector. Long hours have implications on the safety of both staff and patients, as well as on retention rates of staff. The authors add that in some countries public sector cuts have exacerbated the problem, as low paid nurses are taking on second jobs or extra shifts to make ends meet.
English: https://osha.europa.eu/en/publications/reports/current-and-emerging-occupational ...
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The trade union confederation ICTU has called for the restoration of wage-setting mechanisms in key sectors of the economy such as construction, in order to halt the race to the bottom in wages and standards and to restore some protection for workers' livelihoods. Addressing the Joint Committee on Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation the ICTU stated that it is necessary to bring back some balance for workers in these sectors, as the absence of wage-setting mechanisms has seen wages and standards undermined.
English: http://www.ictu.ie/download/pdf/reponse_to_joint_committee ...
The Employment Office stated that against October 2013, unemployment decreased in October 2014 by 0.5 percentage point and the number of vacancies grew by 19,080. The situation on the labour market is influenced, among other things, by economic revival and seasonal work, for example in gastronomy, hotels, construction, tourism and also in agriculture.
English: http://www.mpsv.cz/en/17266
http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/zpravy/unemployment-in-cr-down-0-2-pts ...
The public sector workers went to court in 2010 against the state's decision to cut their salaries. The government announced that it could pay this year the due salaries state employees have won in court and which should have been paid gradually, over several years. The amount stands at some EUR 1.2 billion.
English: http://www.romania-insider.com/romanian-state-could-pay-due-salaries ...
Focus on the court decision: http://www.labourlawnetwork.eu/national_labour_law_latest_country_reports ...
The joint trade unions have called for a rally in front of the government building to demand a halt in the ongoing privatisation drive in the country, which they believe is `aimless'. Representatives of all seven trade union confederations argued that the country lacks a strategy to answer questions about how it wants to manage state assets and what the sale of state companies could mean for the employees and the country's development. They call for conditions to be put in place to make privatisation process transparent: including improvements to the takeover act, boosting the role of state institutions in the procedures and protecting shop stewards and worker representatives on management and supervisory boards.
English: http://www.sloveniatimes.com/unions-to-hold-anti-privatisation-rally
Research from the Oslo University reveals that being a guest worker in Norway may not be as idealistic as it seems because many companies are breaking employment rules to save money. The western neighbour has developed into an extremely popular option for jobless Swedes because of its booming economy. It is pointed out that among the ways Swedes were being mistreated included jobs without written contracts, unpaid trial shifts, and different working conditions and lower salaries than their Norwegian counterparts.
English: http://www.icenews.is/2014/11/08/swedes-told-of-risks-of-working-in-norway/
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report in September puts the developed world average for youths who are neither in employment nor in education at 15%. Spain fares poorly in the report: 31% of people without a high school diploma are out of work, compared with an average of 15%, while 20% of those who did graduate from high school are also unemployed, compared with an OECD average of 16%. At the same time 23% of university graduates are jobless, compared with a developed world average of 13%. The question is how to motivate youngsters to seek work or study in such a situation.
English: http://elpais.com/elpais/2014/11/07/inenglish ...
The unemployment rate in September was 4.1%, a year-on-year drop of 1.1%, while the wage index showed a month-on-month rise of 0.7%, according to Statistics Iceland. The survey reveals that the number of people classed as part of the labour force market, including 7,500 unemployed people, in September stood at 183,200. The activity rate during the month was 79.2%, while the employment rate stood at 78.9% and the unemployment rate at 4.1%. Among 16 to 24-year-olds, the unemployment rate was 9.4%, compared to 3.2% among the 25+ age group.
English: http://www.statice.is/Pages ...
http://www.icenews.is/2014/11/07/iceland-unemployment-down-and-wage-index-up/
A decision on a proposal to restrict shop openings on Sundays made by Christian Democrats (KDNP), the minor partner in the governing alliance, will be made only after consultations with the trade unions and companies operating the shops. The government has discussed the proposal but has not made a decision. The leader of the Commercial Employee's Trade Union welcomed the bill. In view of the labour shortage hitting the sector, the restrictions would not bring about layoffs of retail workers, he said.
English: http://hungarytoday.hu/cikk/82194-2-christian-democrats-to-restrict-sunday-shopping ...
Right after a state court rejected Deutsche Bahn railways' attempt to win an injunction to stop an ongoing strike, the trade union GDL announced to cut short the planned four-day strike and return to work - in time for celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall. Deutsche Bahn had asked for an injunction to halt the strike after the GDL rejected an offer of mediation. However, in two subsequent cases within 15 hours, the court upheld the union's right to strike.
English: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/07/germany-railways-strike ...