A large minority of youngsters (39%) believes that the possibilities of getting an appealing job position are `poor', according to a study conducted by the Youth Competence Center. The qualification good was substantially lower (16%). 72% of the surveyed youth, between 18 and 25 years of age, indicated that the lack of job opportunities is one of the main reasons that causes them to emigrate. More than two-thirds of the respondents believe that by increasing the average salary, youth diaspora living abroad, would return. Other solutions include improving of job opportunities and the standard of living.
English: http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/analytics ...
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Court hearings in six cities were reduced to a minimum as lawyers took to the streets on 7 July. The lawyers are protesting against a new tax on legal fees that is supposed to finance legal aid in the future. Legal aid is currently financed by the state, costing it around €250 million per year. The lawyers argue that the money to fund the legal aid could be found somewhere else, but negotiations with the justice ministry led to nothing. Over 2,000 lawyers will now march on the prime minister's residence, to make a final appeal.
English: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france ...
With one in five people unemployed and pensioners outnumbering those in work, the country is struggling with a record budget deficit and could sink into bankruptcy, analysts say. The country has more pensioners than those employed, and of those, more than 50% work in the public sector. More than 20% of the workforce is unemployed, and many of those with jobs barely survive on an average monthly salary equivalent to 350 euros.
English: http://inserbia.info/today/2014/07/afp-serbia-could-sink-into-bankruptcy/
A publication in German (with an English summary) provides topical figures about the labour market. In 2013 (yearly average) the number of employed persons (ILO-definition) was 4 175 200. The employment rate for the population aged 15-64 years was 72.3%. 215,200 persons were unemployed; the unemployment rate amounted to 4.9%. In 2013, 45.5% of female employed and 26.6% of all persons employed worked part-time. Nearly nine out of ten employed persons worked as employees (3 620 200), 476 900 as self-employed and 78 100 as family workers.
German: http://www.statistik.at/web_de/statistiken/arbeitsmarkt/erwerbsstatus ...
Hundreds of striking artists, actors and technicians took to the streets of the southern French city in a silent march to publicise their battle over proposed changes to their unemployment benefits. The approximate 100,000 casual festival workers have a special legal status whereby they can draw unemployment benefits between jobs. Arts workers contend that they are being penalised by reform plans for higher payroll taxes and a longer wait for unemployment benefits which kick in between jobs (see also the March Newsletter).
English: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/news/the-shows ...
The Guardian reports that declassified files at the National College for Studying the Securitate Archives (CNSAS) in Romania show that furniture giant IKEA agreed to be overcharged for Romanian-made products and some of these funds were handed over to the Securitate, the infamous secret service. The documents are reported to indicate that Ikea was complicit in the payments, a claim denied by the firm. Ikea was one of a small number of western European firms who took advantage of the large timber resources and cheap labour that the country offered as restrictions on trade began to ease in the 1980s.
English: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/04/ikea-funds-romania-secret-police ...
Thousands of workers have taken part in a rally in Madrid to protest at the arrest and possible imprisonment of several hundred workers for taking part in strike action. The government's actions break with decades of respect for the right to strike since the end of the Franco dictatorship.
English: http://www.ituc-csi.org/huge-rally-in-madrid-for-right-to ...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/02/spanish-unions-campaign-criminalisation ...
The parliament's lower house approved a 5% point cut in social security taxes for employers that is intended to boost economic growth but will leave a gap in the budget, going against a recommendation from the International Monetary Fund. The cut in employers' tax to 15.8% from October 2014 will create a large revenue shortfall, which the government plans to cover with higher than expected returns from a tax on special buildings introduced this year.
English: http://www.brecorder.com/taxation ...
Workers from the Public Power Corporation (PPC) have started organising rolling strikes, leading to power cuts throughout the country. The workers are protesting against the upcoming privatisation of the company, which is expected to lead to parts of the enterprise being sold off and reorganisation. Directly after the start of the strikes, the government moved to have it declared illegal in court. After a court ruling ordering all workers back to work, the unions ended the strike but announced they will continue their protests.
English: http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/07/06/ppc-unions-end-strike-at-midnight/
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The parliament has passed an act that strengthens the autonomy of the social partners in collective bargaining. The act (called Tarifautonomiestrkungsgesetz) introduces a statutory minimum hourly wage of €8.5 in 2015. Sectors with already negotiated minimum wages that are lower than €8.5 will have 2 years to adapt to the new minimum. After 2 years, a joint committee with representatives from the State, employers' organisations and trade unions will meet regularly (every 2 years) to reassess the minimum wage level. The act enables the social partners in a sector to impose more easily a collective agreement to all enterprises in a sector as the act makes an end to a (50% of workers in the sector) representation limit.
English: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/03/germany-minimumwage-approval
German: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/mindestlohn-eine-historische-reform ...
Focus on the new act (in German): http://www.sozialpolitik-aktuell.de/kontrovers ...