A recent analysis from the think-tank Cevea shows that income inequality is on the rise. The analysis shows that the wealthiest one percent of Danes - about 46,000 individuals - own nearly one third of the country's total wealth. The gap is increasing; since 2002, the income of the wealthiest has increased by nearly 30% while the poorest have ten percent less wealth than they did 12 years ago.
English: http://www.thelocal.dk/20140901/denmarks-one-percent-problem
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The trade unions have stated that they are extremely worried about the treatment of workers in the tourism industry. Unions around the country have had to deal with reports of employees filing grievances, mostly about being paid unfairly. Numerous employers are reluctant to pay the right wages. The largest complaints to come forward are that employers pay daytime wages regardless of what shift is worked.
English: http://grapevine.is/news/2014/09/01/union-official-worried ...
According to a report from the `Comité de conjoncture', which analyses employment indicators, 16 firms applied for state funding to reduce working hours and save costs. Applications for the `partial unemployment scheme' need to be renewed every month. Under the scheme, companies in difficult financial circumstances can place workers under reduced hours with the state compensating lost wages for employees.
French: https://www.gouvernement.lu/3968460/27-comite-conjoncture
Economic institute GKI published a report on the economic outlook. In the first half of 2014 employment mounted by 5.5% including those employed in public workfare schemes and by about 2.5% without them. The unemployment rate for May-July 2014 was 7.9%, 2.2 percentage points lower than a year earlier. However, improvements slowed down in this sphere, and they were less than usual in summer. Gross earnings grew by 3% in the first half of 2014 (by 5.7% with the exclusion of those involved in public work schemes). As net earnings increased by the same rate and the price level remained practically unchanged, real wages also were up by the same rate. From May on, however, the rate of increase in earnings dropped from 6-7% in the past few months to 4%.
English: http://www.gki.hu/sites/default ...
An amended Labour Court Recommendation on a cost cutting plan for the railway company was rejected in a ballot. The plan included temporary pay cuts for 28 months ranging from 1.7% to 6.1%. The company had warned workers that if intensive negotiations failed to secure agreement on cost reductions, it would unilaterally implement the cuts set out in the recommendation. However, the recommendation was rejected by SIPTU and the National Bus and Rail Union. Other unions at the company, the TSSA, the TEEU and Unite, accepted the Labour Court recommendation, but the overall ballot result was 51% against, 49% in favour. The company thereafter imposed pay-cuts to the workforce. The trade unions reacted and stated that their members will stop work on four of five planned dates, with 'work to rule' on one date. Officials at the Labour Relations Commission asked the unions to call off the strike and to engage in formal talks.
English: http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/lrc-talks-aim-to-halt-second-wave ...
http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0711 ...
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/irish-rail-workers-confirm-strike ...
Analysis by the independent think-tank the Resolution Foundation shows that the proportion of workers aged 21 to 30 who are now classed as low paid has more than tripled over the past four decades. The data help to explain why many young people are locked out of the housing market. The report comes amid growing concern that the economic recovery is not translating into wage growth and higher living standards for large sections of the country. The trade union confederation TUC recalls that too many low-pay, low-skill and low-productivity jobs in low-investment workplaces are hampering the chances of a recovery.
English: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/30/low-pay-workers ...
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/30/low-pay ...
In an effort to maintain their early retirement scheme pilots at Lufthansa's budget carrier Germanwings staged a six-hour strike. The scheme allows pilots to retire at 55 and still receive up to 60% of their pay until state pension payments start. The Germanwings walkout is the fourth strike to affect Lufthansa's operations in 2014. Earlier this year, security staff and public-sector workers chose to strike at Frankfurt airport. The pilots are also in discussions with Lufthansa over pay increases, although they say the pension scheme rather than pay is the main reason for the strike.
English: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/29/us-germany-strike-lufthansa ...
The Portuguese and British trade unions signed a co-operation (28 August), aimed at ensuring Portuguese migrant workers in the UK can join unions and enforce their rights at work. The agreement will help to prevent the exploitation of migrants and the undercutting of existing workers' wages. The protocol also covers Portuguese speakers from non-European countries, such as Angola and Brazil, who are working in the UK. Unions will seek to recruit and represent these migrant workers, and a guide to workplace rights in Portuguese will be posted on the TUC website.
English: http://www.ekklesia.co.uk ...
LOT Airlines has dismissed the vice-president of the cabin crew trade union ZZPP. The dismissal is not only a violation of trade union rights, but also an attempt to disrupt on-going collective agreement negotiations. The state owned airline has a bad record of similar anti-union practices. Over the last five years, the airline dismissed eight trade union leaders. The Civil Aviation Secretaries of the international and European trade unions ITF and ETF are demanding the reinstatement of the dismissed union leader in a joint letter to the President of LOT Polish Airlines. The situation is escalating into a dispute.
English: http://www.itfglobal.org/news-online ...
http://www.labourstartcampaigns.net/show_campaign ...
The statistical office CBS has published data on the number of people claiming welfare benefits. People are entitled to welfare benefits once they have used up their entitlement to unemployment benefit and provided they have little in the way of assets. Despite a slight recovery the number of social security claimants has risen by 8 thousand to 434 thousand in the second quarter of 2014.
English: http://www.cbs.nl/en-GB/menu/themas/arbeid-sociale-zekerheid/publicaties ...