According to the Office for Statistics, the number of people employed grew by 2.5% to 40,611 in 2019. Of this workforce 55.9% were commuters who cross the border every day. 57.4% of those commuting lived in Switzerland, 38.6% in Austria, 2.9% in Germany, and 1.2% came from other countries. A total of 62.9% of the workforce were employed in services, 36.5% in industry, and 0.6% in agriculture.
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[close]Around 4,000 health workers demonstrated in Brussels, demanding more spending on the healthcare system. The protesters want politicians to increase pay and healthcare funding. The demonstration was organised by the health workers group ‘La Santé en Lutte’.
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[close]The registered unemployment rate stood at 13.7% on September 1 according to the Employment Service. Although labour demand is recovering after shrinking until April, the number of registered unemployed people is much higher than last year, the Employment Service notes.
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[close]Summoned by trade union Ver.di, some 500 employees of broadcasting company Deutsche Welle in Berlin went on strike to support the union during the negotiations on fair pay and decent working conditions. The strike action caused part or the programming to be either cancelled or replaced by shelf programmes. The warning strike is in response to the withdrawal by the management of already agreed pay increases for 1,700 employees and 4,000 freelancers. The broadcaster withdrew the accord to increase pay by 6.2% within a 33-month period, and now offers only 1% per year for three years.
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[close]According to the fourth Gender Intelligence Report, half of employees in non-management levels at major companies are women, but promotion rates between men and women remain far from equal. The report analysed data of 302,000 employees across 75 organisations. Only 29% of management positions are taken by women, while they take 49% of non-management roles. Higher up the ladder their representation even drops to 18%. The authors recommend that companies consider gender promotion targets. For example, if women make up 33% of one management band then a third of promotions to the next hierarchical level should be women. Despite this complaint, the report also acknowledges progress in some areas.
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[close]The government introduced a new measure to help those parents whose children were sent home. A total of 32 schools and 524 individual classes have closed because of COVID-19 outbreaks. The government announced that parents affected by the closures would be granted access to “chomage partiel”, the economic aid scheme bolstered by the government at the beginning of the lockdown in March to help businesses foot their employees’ salaries to prevent mass layoffs. Parents who could not work from home would get access to the scheme with retroactive effect starting September 1st, the government said.
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[close]According to their trade union, Skoda Auto (a subsidiary of Volkswagen) wants to shift production of some luxury models to Volkswagen plants in other countries (Slovakia, Germany, and Spain). Skoda is battling to get back from shutdowns due to the Coronavirus crisis and now faces uncertainty.
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[close]Almost all groups of teachers in Latvia are paid half as much for their work compared to teachers on average in member states of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), as detailed in the organisation’s report Education at a Glance 2020.
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[close]The Government has agreed on a temporary right for parents to receive maternity benefits if their child is sent home due to the coronavirus. The agreement is to help parents who will have to stay at home for a period of time while their children wait for a coronavirus test. According to the agreement, the parents are entitled to a compensation at the level of the maternity benefit. The scheme covers parents who have children up to 13 years old.
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[close]The average net wage rose to RON 3,372 (€696) in July, 8.1% more than in the same month last year. In real terms, the net wages rose by 5.2% year-on-year, close to the pre-crisis levels (+5.9% year-on-year in February).
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