Companies with posted workers and self-employed workers from abroad that intent to work temporarily or partially in Belgium must first complete a declaration via the Limosa website. This electronic point of contact simplifies the administrative obligations. However, the European Court of Justice had serious doubts about this obligation for self-employed. Following the judgment of the ECJ of 19 December 2012 (Case C-577/10), the federal government has revised the Limosa-obligation to report a posting as a self-employed person. Starting July 1, 2013, the obligation is fully applicable again in a new form. The list of information required from posted self-employed workers and employed workers has been condensed.
English: http://www.belgium.be/en/news/2013/news_changes_to_the_limosa_declaration ...
https://www.socialsecurity.be/foreign/en/employer_limosa/home.html
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Police unions have ended strike actions after their union signed an agreement with the government guaranteeing that budget funds for their work will not be reduced and that there will be no redundancies. As reported in the January 2013 newsletter, the police unions have been at odds with the government since the beginning of the year, when officers went on strike claiming the government have failed to fulfil promises made in May 2012. Police unions were demanding the implementation of the pay agreements from May 2012, which ended a strike over pay cuts set off in April 2012. The unions furthermore demanded a 10% pay increase for the current period.
English: http://www.sloveniatimes.com/police-strike-formally-ends
Trade unions officers have made public that Air France plans to cut as many as 3,000 jobs. Air France-KLM already renegotiated pay and conditions with airline staff, cutting 5,122 jobs and restructuring its network to cope with soaring fuel costs, a worsening cargo business and tough competition from Gulf and low-cost carriers. But, a new cost-cutting plan is expected to be outlined in broad terms to the trade unions at a meeting in August, followed by a detailed briefing on October 4. The measures would be implemented in early 2014.
English: http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2013/07/31/Air-France-to-cut-up-to-3000-jobs ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/30/us-airfrance-jobs ...
French: http://www.liberation.fr/economie/2013/07/31/air-france-supprime-encore ...
A plan to revise the unemployment insurance fee regulation has neither received the backup of the employers, nor the support of the trade unions. Trade unions and employers agree more with each other than with the state, said a member of the Employers' Confederation, commenting the proposal to let MPs decide the level of next year's unemployment insurance fee. The debate concerns the fate of hundreds of millions of euros because all salaried workers pay 2% of their gross wages to the unemployment insurance fund, plus 1% paid by employers.
English: http://balticbusinessnews.com/article/2013/7/30/employers-trade-unions-suspicious ...
The European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) has published a concise, visual map outlining wage developments in Europe between 2000 and 2012. The wage map is an illustration drawn from the earlier report Benchmarking Working Europe 2013 and focuses on the connection between declines in real wages and austerity. The researchers show that austerity negatively impacts on wages, employment and poverty.
English: http://www.etui.org/News/ETUI-wage-map-shows-failure-of-EU-s-wage-cutting ...
http://www.etui.org/Publications2/Books/Benchmarking-Working-Europe-2013
A church-run charity organisation C ritas Portuguesa, has started an initiative to help unemployed workers over forty get a job. The organisation aims to bring employers and unemployed together through an online network that focuses on the exchange of skills.
English: http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/national-church-charity-devises-on-line ...
Thousands of railway workers have marched on the government headquarters to protest against the impending privatisation of the national railways. Trade unions also protest against measures, to be implemented awaiting a new owner; some workers will be put on four-day working weeks even after the railways laid off 1,100 workers in 2012.
English: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article ...
According to trade union 3F the country's largest pea producer, Peter Skov, is underpaying its employees, taking their passports and trapping them in employment. Two Portuguese pea pickers complained that Peter Skov did not ensure a promised minimum 30-hour working week to ensure that the pea pickers earned a decent minimum wage. The pay slips showed that they earned around 140 kroner (?18.8) per day over 19 days in June and July picking peas in Refsvindinge in southern Funen. After accommodation and transport costs were deducted, the two were left with about 70 kroner (?9.4) per day. 3F intends to bring the case to the agricultural employer's association, GLS-A, which has a collective bargaining agreement in place with 3F.
English: http://cphpost.dk/national/union-and-pea-pickers-clash-over-working-conditions
The statistical office came up with new figures on real wages and the monthly wage index. The wage index in June 2013 was 0.3% higher than in the previous month. In the last twelve months the monthly wage index has risen by 5.7%. However, the real wage index in June 2013 ended 0.2% lower than in the previous month. In the last twelve months the real wage index has increased by 2.3%.
English: http://www.statice.is/Pages/444?NewsID=9502
Trade unions LCGB and OGBL have negotiated a collective agreement with tobacco manufacturer Heinz van Landewyck. Workers are to get a 1.5% pay increase from 1 September 2013 onwards and a one-off €300 bonus in 2014. The agreement, which will be valid for two years, also includes a raise in year-end bonuses for employees over fifty.
English: http://www.wort.lu/en/view/wage-increases-at-heintz-van-landewyck ...