In protest against a below-inflation 1% pay increase the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) trade union called a London strike. As a consequence, thousands of police civilian staff, including handlers of 999 calls, will probably strike on New Year's Eve to coincide with a fresh walkout by firefighters. About 7,500 civilian police workers will take action for 24 hours in a row over pay while members of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) in England and Wales will stop work for six hours from 6.30pm. It will be the eighth strike by the firefighters since September 2013 in a bitter dispute over pensions and the retirement age.
English: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/31/new-years-eve-police ...
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As a shortage of primary school teachers is looming the trade union CNV says encouraging older teachers to retire early would free up space in schools for new graduates. While primary schools are currently shrinking, there will be a `guaranteed' shortage of 2,000 teachers by 2017 with a wave of older teachers that are set to retire, the union says. The current shortage of jobs means fewer students are signing up for teacher training colleges and recent graduates are retraining for other jobs.
English: http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2013/12/union_warns_of_looming ...
The law on a pension reform approved by MPs earlier in December will be transferred to the Constitutional Tribunal to examine some of its provisions, particularly the parts of the act seeking to ban investments of the private pension companies in the country's sovereign bonds. Under the new law, private investment companies that are part of the country's pension system will be forced to hand over about half of their assets to the state in order to reduce public debt.
English: http://www.thenews.pl/1/12/Artykul/157309,Parts-of-pension-reform-act-sent ...
http://www.newpolandexpress.pl/polish_news_story-6136-green_light_for_pensions ...
The director-general of the CBI, the country's biggest business lobby group, accuses employers of keeping too many people in minimum wage jobs and failing to pass on prosperity. Companies benefiting from the economic recovery should pay their long-suffering workers more in 2014 said the CBI-head in an unprecedented attack on firms he accuses of keeping `far too many people stuck in minimum-wage jobs'. The intervention in the debate on living standards came as the trade union GMB warned that the real value of national average earnings has fallen by 14% since the start of the recession in 2008. Citing data from the Office for National Statistics, the GMB said average pay in 2013 was 27,174, compared with 26,137 in 2008. That emerged as a 13.8% drop in real terms with inflation and the rising cost of living factored in.
English: http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/dec/30/pay-workers-more-cbi-firms
The number of people living in absolute poverty has doubled between 2005 and 2012 and tripled in the industrial north, up to 6.4% from 2.5%, according to an annual report on social cohesion by national statistics bureau Istat. Istat noted earlier that the percentage of Italian families with three or more children living in absolute poverty jumped to 16.2% in 2012 from 10.4% in 2011 while the number of single-parent families in absolute poverty jumped to 9.1% from 5.8% the previous year.
English: http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2013/12/30/Poverty-hits-record ...
Italian: http://www.istat.it/it/files/2013/12/Volume_II_20131.pdf
According to a statement from the CGTP trade union confederation a strike that started 23 December was prompted by the city's use of outside contractors and the privatisation of essential services. The union said it would continue the strike until 5 January. In the meantime piles of garbage mount in the streets of Lisbon after the nearly week-long strike of the collectors. The strike is one of several to hit the public services in recent months as trade unions oppose the government's 2014 austerity budget, which is the harshest one adopted in decades.
English: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/12/30/342728/trash-piles-up-in-lisbon ...
http://www.euronews.com/2013/12/29/rubbish-collection-has-taken-a-holiday-in-lisbon/
Workers of the Turku Nestle baby food facility started a three day strike over the company's intention to employ its temporary workers through a third party. The workers asked Nestle to take its social responsibility and to hire all workers directly. Nestle has said the decision is a reaction to a lower need to temporary workers in the facility. The company went to court and the Industrial tribunal fined the union branch and workers' union three times for illegal industrial action. However, the trade union kept the strike justified and ignored the fine continuing the strike on 10, 16 and 20 December 2013.
English: http://www.finnbay.com/ek-strike-of-nestle-finland-workers-in-turku ...
http://www.just-food.com/news/nestle-faces-strike-over-temporary-worker-status ...
The Labour and Pension Ministry urged the management board of the Brodosplit shipyard and the trade unions active in that shipyard to establish a `constructive dialogue' in order to normalise their relations, and appealed to the management to reconsider its decision to dismiss 13 workers who had taken part in the October protests (see our October Newsletter). `Economic growth can be achieved only in the circumstances of social peace, both at the national level and in each company,' the ministry said in a statement.
English: http://dalje.com/en-croatia/labour-min-appeals-to-shipyard-to-reconsider ...
A three-year transitional period which saw the provision of salary compensation paid out by employers extended from 14 to 21 days due to austerity measures in the state budget ends on 31. 12. 2013. People that become ill after 31 December 2013 will be entitled to sick leave benefits from the 15th calendar day of their temporary sick leave period. During the first 2 weeks of sick leave employees pay their employees salary compensation in temporary sick leave.
English: http://eu.cianews.cz/english-news/transitional-period-for-sick-leave-benefits ...
The Market Inspectorate and the Labour Inspectorate, who watch over undeclared work and undeclared employment, respectively, are looking forward to the confirmation of new legislation, which was sent to parliament recently. Inspection services are registering results in a campaign to raise public awareness about the shadow economy. They have recorded additional taxable income based on audits in the first nine months of 2013. The Labour Inspectorate found a total of 752 violations of the applicable legislation in 2013, which is more than in 2012. It represents 7.8% of all violations in the field of labour relationships; most violations were related to undeclared employment in the hospitality sector, construction, commerce and transport.
English: http://www.sloveniatimes.com/campaign-against-shadow-economy ...