Employers have criticized the number of holidays in the country. There are 246 working days in Slovakia in 2014, the lowest number among all Visegrád Group (V4) countries, an alliance of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Poland has 251 business days and Hungary and the Czech Republic both have 252, according the Klub 500, a civic organisation uniting owners of firms with more than 500 employees. In recent years the debate has been to decrease the number of days off. However, a broad opposition led to no agreement among the parties.
English: http://spectator.sme.sk/articles/view/55303/3/no_cut ...
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Mid-September, the government has made it known that it will increase public employees' salaries by 3.5% starting from 1 November 2014 instead of 1 January 2015. The government has said that the necessary budgetary space to raise the wages already this year was found. The increase will benefit the 930,000 public sector employees such as teachers, health care workers and police officers.
English: http://www.radio.cz/en/section/news/public-employees-set-for-pay-raise ...
A public sector strike announced for September 19 was called off after assurances were made by President Anastasiades. The trade union of public sector employees (PASYDY) had announced a strike after statements by the finance ministry on upcoming cuts in salaries and the taxation of a one off bonus allocated to public sector employees upon their retirement. The strike was called off after the President promised that the government has no intention of taxing the retirement bonuses.
English: http://cyprus-mail.com/2014/09/18/civil-servants-to-call-off-strike/
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The labour inspectorate, in cooperation with the police, has cracked down on illegal work and hazardous working conditions, leading to the closure of several construction sites. The inspectorate is actively fighting the exploitation of mainly Eastern European workers on the sites, the hazardous working conditions as well as tax evasion.
English: http://www.wort.lu/en/luxembourg/labour-inspection-illegal-workers ...
Fiat had decided to temporary suspend the production at the Pomigliano plant near Naples. Some 1,950 of the plant's 4,500 workers have already been on so-called solidarity contracts since March, under which they agree to work less and are also paid less in exchange for workers retaining their jobs. After meeting with the company to approve the temporary layoff of workers for the time of the closure a trade union spokesperson declared that the measure was `necessary because of the slowdown in the market in view of the end of the year'. Fiat often uses the state-backed temporary layoff schemes to avoid over-production by keeping workers at home when market demand is lower.
English: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/thomson-reuters/140919/fiat-suspend ...
A large conference dedicated to the fight against undeclared labour took place in Vilnius. Several speakers (from the ILO and several European institutes) formulated proposals to deal with formalising the informal economy, which in Europe often takes the form of undeclared work; it refers mainly to lawful work that is not declared to the public authorities in order to reduce labour costs and evade taxation.
English: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ilo-chief-urges-eu-members-ramp-steps-tackle-shadow ...
Two thirds of the unionised NHS workers in England voted to strike, announcing the NHS's first pay strike in 32 years. Up to 88% of the balloted members indicated they would join the strike. The workers are angry about recent news that a planned 1% pay rise in 2015 and another 1% in 2016, will not apply to many NHS workers, because it is reserved for workers who will not get a raise from length of service or experience. The unions have reacted outraged that the already disappointing raise will not even apply to all workers.
English: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/18/nhs-workers-strike ...
Some 14,000 Brussels police officers participated in a protest against the abolition of a special arrangement allowing them to retire in their fifties. Police unions have threatened a national strike if the plan to increase the pension age to 52 will be implemented. Spokespersons explained that police officers have always had an early retirement arrangement due to the hardship associated with the job. The pension reform is one measure in a much large reform of the police department that is ongoing.
English: http://www.gulf-times.com/uk-europe ...
Forty-two miners have refused to leave the Cherno More Mine in Burgas and are staging an underground strike. The miners are demanding the company pay their salaries, which they haven't received in two months. The miners trade union is ensuring that the workers who are on strike are supplied with enough food and have an ambulance standing by to avoid accidents. Before the start of the underground strike, miners held two one-hour warning protests. The mining company has confirmed that about BGN 600,000 in salaries for around 400 miners have not been paid.
English: http://www.focus-fen.net/news/2014/09/18 ...
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Registered taxi drivers in European, Canada, India and the USA have organised protests and met to discuss the growth of taxi app companies. The unions are concerned with social dumping and "the way these companies undermine public safety and the jobs of real, regulated taxi drivers by bypassing regulations and refusing liability in the case of accidents".
English: http://www.itfglobal.org/news-online ...