The website Fizetesek.hu has investigated how the gender pay gap has changed during recent years. The results show that women receive 21% less money than men for the same amount of work, and in higher positions the difference is even greater. In 2008 the gap was 17.5% but after a small improvement in 2009 it began growing and in 2012 reached 20%. Since then it has grown even more. It means that women would need to work about two months for free to receive equal wages.
English: http://budapesttimes.hu/2014/05/11/womens-pay-packets-a-whole-lot-slimmer/
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Hours before another strike of London Underground personnel, representatives from the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) trade union and management reached a working agreement. The last-ditch talks were called to prevent another crippling strike, such as reported in last month's newsletter. Calling off the strike, RMT said the talks had yielded a `viable framework for a review of cuts and proposed ticket office closures'.
English: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/tube-strike-rmt-union-calls-off-threeday ...
http://www.itfglobal.org/news-online/index.cfm/newsdetail/10441/region ...
Strikes over pay and working conditions are looming in the hotel and restaurant branch, the harbours and farming. Harbour workers are taking action against attempts by harbour managers and shipping companies to use seafarers instead of dockers to load and unload vessels. Hotel workers will take action on 17 May, a national holiday. The action is expected to close down or affect 69 hotels and involve 2,621 workers. The hotel strike follows a ballot in which union members rejected an agreement on pay that was reached between the Fellesforbundet union and employers' organisation NHO Reiseliv.
English: http://www.newsinenglish.no/2014/05/08/harbor-strikes-loom-all-over-norway/
http://www.newsinenglish.no/2014/05/07/hotel-strike-to-hit-norway-next-week/
While annual unemployment was falling across the Eurozone, Cyprus recorded by the end of March 2014 the highest increase compared with a year ago (from 14.8% to 17.4%). However, the number of registered unemployed for April 2014 decreased 1,988 to 48,384 persons compared to 50,372 in the previous month. Unemployment increased in the sectors of financial and insurance activities (an increase of 1.183 unemployed), public administration (+841), transportation and storage (+200), education (+186), accommodation and food service activities (+129). The unemployment decreased in the trade, construction and manufacturing sectors.
English: http://incyprus.philenews.com/en-gb/Local/4332/41500/slight-decrease
Figures, compiled by the House of Commons Library, highlight the growth of `in-work poverty' in recent years while wages fell in real terms and rents continued to rise. The number of housing benefit claimants in work rose from 650,561 in May 2010 to 1.03 million by the end of 2013. In England, the number of in-work claimants has increased from 586,181 to 936,964 since 2010. In Scotland, the number jumped from 40,447 to 61,856 over the same period and in Wales from 23,923 to 38,003.
English: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/exclusive-socalled-inwork-poverty ...
Of the twelve activists that were arrested during a shipbuilding workers' strike, eleven have been released by court order, while the 12th received a suspended six month sentence. On 4 October 2012, workers at the Hellenic Shipyard in Skaramanga went on strike to demand the payment of wages that had not been paid for over a year. When clashes with the police occurred during the strike, twelve activists of the Panhellenic Metal Workers' Federation (POEM) were arrested. On 5 May, after a court battle that involved international trade union support, the court ordered the activists released.
English: http://www.industriall-union.org/victory-for-greek-shipbuilding-workers
Workers at An Post and Eircom are to seek pay rises of 6%, one of the largest percentage increases to be sought in the current series of claims being lodged by trade unions following several years of pay freezes and cuts for many workers. Details of the 6% pay claim emerged at the delegate conference of the Communications Workers' Union (CWU) which represents 8,500 members in An Post and 3,500 in Eircom. A spokesman said that staff in Eircom had had an effective 10% pay cut through the introduction of 9-day fortnight while employees in An Post had had a pay freeze.
English: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/staff-in-an-post-eircom-to-seek ...
The government and the social partners agreed to promote the vocational training and retraining of the workforce. A fund will be created that aims to upgrade the adult education and continuing training. The so-called double skills upgrade (continuing education for both skilled and unskilled workers) has to strengthen the productivity and, in turn, create workplaces. The partners share the idea that it is crucial for unskilled workers to receive the proper training to become skilled workers and that those who are already skilled have the opportunity to embark on further training.
English: http://www.lo.dk/English version/News/veu.aspx
A daily newspaper reports that workers are recruited for the building of football stadiums in Qatar. The same source says that the Croatian government has prepared a deal with Qatar authorities over work contracts for the building of stadiums. Just recently, Amnesty International has documented a range of abuses faced by migrant workers in Qatar in two detailed reports examining the situation for construction workers and domestic workers. The reports document the fatalities that take place on sites due to mistreatment of workers, unsafe working methods, extraordinary working times and poor safety regulations.
English: http://www.croatiantimes.com/news/Business/2014-05-02/35410/Croats_could ...
http://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/qatar-un-review-crucial-reforms ...
After four rounds of negotiations the partners in collective bargaining for the construction sector (approximately 780,000 workers) have agreed on a compromise two-year pay deal. Partners agreed to further reduce the pay gap between East and West Germany. From 1 June 2014 on the wages will increase with 3.1% in West Germany and 3.8% in East Germany, followed from 1 June 2015 with another 2.6% in West Germany and 3.3% in East Germany. Agreed is also a reform and improvement of the industry related supplementary pensions in the Eastern part. The deal has to be approved by the executives of both partners.
English: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/06/germany-construction-wages ...
German: http://www.igbau.de/Bau-Tarifrunde__2014.html