The Constitutional Court has abolished some provisions of a law that prevented workers from organising in trade unions, but experts remain cautious, as significant challenges to workers' rights to organise remain. The court cancelled several provisions of Law No. 6356 on trade unions and collective bargaining agreements. However, a major hurdle still blocks unionisation by workers: the nationwide threshold of 3 percent required for the unions to bargain collectively for members' wages and working conditions.
English: http://www.todayszaman.com/anasayfa_barrier-to-unionization-removed ...
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The aim of the Global Gender Gap report is to document whether nations are distributing their opportunities and resources equitably between men and women. The 2014 report seeks to measure the relative gaps between women and men across four key areas: health, education, economy and politics. The 2014 report (with 142 country profiles) qualifies Denmark as the fifth best country for gender equality - up from eighth place - meaning the top five positions are now taken up by the Nordic nations. Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden make up the top four spots respectively.
English: http://www3.weforum.org/docs/GGGR14 ...
http://reports.weforum.org/global-gender-gap-report-2014/
A survey, which was conducted in September, canvassed the views of 1,043 respondents. It was carried out within a project entitled `What to Do About Poverty'. 34% of the respondents said that a four-member family needs at least €900 per month in order to be able to live a modest but decent life. Another 34% said that it needs at least €1,200. Furthermore, 94% think that poverty is a problem or very serious problem.
English: http://spectator.sme.sk/articles/view/55671/2/slovaks_aware_of_poverty ...
Portugal Airline cabin crews launched a 24-hour strike. The crews for the TAP Portugal carrier grounded flights causing mass cancellations for nearly half of its 320 scheduled flights and rerouting more than 25,000 passengers. The cabin crews are demanding better working conditions. Currently, the government is preparing to sell the state-owned airline. The cabin crew trade union SNPVAC claims that contracts are being violated and contributing to a continuous and systematic degradation of work conditions at the airline.
English: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Portugal-Airline-Cabin-Crews ...
In protest against dismissals workers at the headquarters of the Football Association walked out. The trade unions accused the Royal Belgian Football Association (KBVB) of having `coldly dismissed in a degrading way' certain members of staff. Trade union anger is also the lack of industrial talks, which has not given the workers any chance of early retirement or redundancy package.
English: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency ...
New research by the Resolution Foundation think-tank reveals that more than five million workers are in low-paid work, with the proportion of people on low salaries rising from 21 to 22% in 2013. Millions are in jobs so poorly paid that they have little if anything left to spend after their basic needs have been met. The report, Low Pay Britain 2014, reveals that 5.2 million workers earn less than £7.70 an hour, an increase of 250,000 on the previous year. The minimum wage is £6.50 an hour. The recession has merely exacerbated a trend that has been in place for the past three decades: a polarisation of the labour market.
English: http://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/low-pay-britain-2014/
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics ...
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/18/economy-bleak-british-workers ...
A law that allows the government to make cuts to public servants' pay and hours without their agreement is about to be repealed. The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has been lobbying intensively for the removal of this provision and wants to see it repealed before the end of the Government's term of office because as a leader of trade union SIPTU said `one doesn't know what the next administration will be like'.
English: http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/howlin-to-axe-law ...
The communication minister announced a salary increase for everyone who works with the state-owned Romanian Post, after the company managed to steer back into profitability. Romanian Post has 27,000 employees. The company's former management was dismissed because it approved salary hikes without respecting the law, authorities said at the time.
English: http://www.romania-insider.com/romanias-communications-minister-announces ...
The leading Catholic charity Caritas published a massive 700-page report on poverty and social exclusion prepared by some 90 experts and academics. The number of people living in poverty has risen by 4.4 million since the country was battered by an economic crisis to reach 11.7 million, or one in four. The proportion of people living in social exclusion stood at 25.1% in mid-2013, up from 16.3% in 2007, a year before a decade-long housing bubble collapsed sending the economy into a tailspin. Of the 11.7 million people who live in social exclusion, 77.1% do not have a job and 61.7% struggle to keep a roof over their heads.
English: http://www.thelocal.es/20141029/one-in-four-spaniards-live-in-poverty-report
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Surging water trapped at least 18 workers in the privately owned Has Sekerler mine, officials and reports said - an event likely to raise even more concerns about the nation's poor workplace safety standards. The trade unions repeatedly have criticised the country's poor safety standards and superficial government inspections in many of the country's mines. The International Labour Organisation organised a National Tripartite Meeting on Improving Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) in Mining in Turkey. Government, workers' and employers' representatives and other relevant stakeholders concluded with agreement on the main elements of a roadmap on how to improve occupational safety and health in the industry.
English: http://www.timesunion.com/business/energy/article/Report-23-trapped-in-Turkish ...
http://www.industriall-union.org/turkey-no-more-mine-deaths-turkish-government-must ...