A French court found Ryanair guilty on charges of breaches of labour law and imposed a fine of €10 million on the company. Ryanair was accused of social dumping and as well hindering the activities of works councils and trade unions. From 2007 to 2010, the carrier employed its Marseilles based workers on Irish contracts and posted them in France, thus avoiding having to pay French social fees and labour charges. Ryanair announced its actions were in line with European legislation and that it will appeal to the European Court of Justice.
English: http://www.staffingindustry.com/eng/Research-Publications/Daily-News/France-Ryanair ...
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The government has approved amendments to the Law on Personal Income Tax, which stipulate reducing the personal income tax rate to 22% in 2016. The personal income tax rate will be reduced to 24% in 2014, 23% in 2015, and 22% in 2016. However, the Finance minister stated that a progressive personal income tax is a matter for the more distant future. The ministry updated the information on the Internet.
English: http://www.vid.gov.lv/default.aspx?tabid=8&id=23&hl=2
After a second series of one-week rolling strikes, agency workers at Hovis bakery in Wigan reversed a decision on the use of zero-hour contracts. Previously this year, the bakery cut 30 permanent positions, to hire agency staff with lower pay and fewer hours in return. After the industrial action, Hovis bakery agreed to a restrictive policy on the use of agency labour and gave 24 agency workers a permanent contract. Additionally, any agency worker at the bakery will now receive equal pay after 12 weeks of full time work.
English: http://cms.iuf.org/?q=node/2823
As of 1 October, new rules come into force that aim to strengthen the enforcement of the minimum wage. The new system includes a public naming and shaming scheme, which makes it possible for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HRMC) to publish information about non-compliant employers. In 2012 and 2013, the HRMC fined 736 employers who had not paid the minimum wage and recovered 3.9 million in wages for over 26,500 workers. From 1 October, the minimum wage is 5.03 per hour for people between 18 and 20, and 6.31 for employees of 21 and older.
English: http://www.staffingindustry.com/eng/Research-Publications/Daily-News/UK-National ...
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/national-minimum-wage-to-rise-from-1-october-2013
A year after the extension of opening hours it seems to be complicated to judge the economic impact. According to Statistics Denmark, sales of food and groceries have made only negligible gains. Meanwhile, smaller stores have succumbed to competitors who have the resources to staff those extended hours. This year alone, according to Retail Institute Scandinavia, 96 grocery stores have closed, quite a bump compared to 2009-12, when 69 stores closed on average per year. However, 57 new grocers opened during the same time period. The head of Retail Institute Scandinavia, said it was hard to determine how many shops closed as a result of the new hours and how many closed due to the continued expansion of established discount chains. An associate marketing professor at the Copenhagen Business School suggested smaller businesses would struggle with the added costs of staying open.
English: http://cphpost.dk/business/new-shopping-hours-have-changed-consumer-habits
Next to a 1.6% growth of employment the 2012 labour market statistics indicate an increase of commuters. In total 18,740 commuters came over to work, mainly from neighbouring countries: almost 52% from Switzerland, 44% from Austria, 3% from Germany.
German: http://www.llv.li/amtsstellen/llv-as-3_arbeit_und_erwerb ...
http://www.llv.li/pdf-llv-as-beschaeftigungsstatistik_2012_def
Siemens is to shed 15,000 jobs over the next year, a third of them in Germany, as part of a 6 billion euro cost cutting program. Siemens and the trade unions have negotiated an agreement over about half of the job cuts and a deal on the other half will follow, according to a company spokesman. No workers have been laid off so far and Siemens has said it does not intend to make enforced redundancies, relying instead on attrition and voluntary severance deals. In Germany, about 2,000 jobs will be cut at the company's industrial unit and another 1,400 at its energy and infrastructure business.
English: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/09/29/business-us-siemens-jobs ...
German: http://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/industrie/abbau-von-15-000-stellen ...
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/siemens-streicht-weltweit-15-000 .
The teachers' trade union Egitim-Sen distributed notebooks and school supplies to dozens of children working in cotton fields in the south-eastern province of Sanliurfa in an attempt to raise awareness about the thousands of pupils who work on farms, particularly during harvest periods. For years, many nongovernmental organisations have carried out campaigns in rural parts of the country to encourage families to send their children, particularly their daughters, to schools instead of setting them to work.
English: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/union-raises-awareness-about-children-skipping ...
Firefighters went on strike over pensions as almost 80% voted in favour of industrial action in a ballot that ended earlier in September, although union officials had left the strike to the last possible moment to allow for the possibility of a negotiated settlement. Government figures have shown that thousands of firefighters could face the sack without access to a proper pension simply because they are getting older. A recent review found that over half of current firefighters between the ages of 50 and 54 are no longer able to meet fire and rescue service fitness standards for fighting fires. Beyond the age of 55, two thirds fail to meet the standards. And although the government has previously claimed that older firefighters could be moved to less physically demanding roles, research by the Fire Brigades Union found only a handful of `redeployment' opportunities in fire and rescue services, meaning mass sackings would be inevitable.
English: http://www.fbu.org.uk/?cat=11
http://www.tuc.org.uk/industrial ...
Workers from fourteen IKEA stores and one call centre have rallied in front of the IKEA headquarters in Wallau, near Frankfurt. The workers are protesting against deteriorating pay and working conditions since IKEA broke away from the sector-wide collective agreement earlier this year. IKEA management's attempt to curb the protests by increasing salaries by 2.5% in August has not avoided further strikes by workers demanding better pay, more say over working hours and fewer overnight and late work shifts.
English: http://www.uniglobalunion.org/Apps/uni.nsf ...