In 2018, the average monthly salary in the subsidiaries of foreign companies in Portugal reached at €1,354: its highest value since 2010 and well above the €966 of national companies, Statistics Portugal (INE) says. According to the INE’s ‘Globalisation Statistics’, between 2010 and 2018 the average monthly remuneration was consistently higher in foreign subsidiaries, on average €393.70 more than in domestic companies.
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[close]Around 400 schools across Lithuania suspended classes as teachers staged a two-hour warning strike to press their demands for more funding next year. The strike action was backed by all trade unions that signed a collective agreement in 2017 to allocate €117 million in additional funding for education in the 2020 government budget.
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[close]Tata Steel’s reorganisation in Europe will be felt the hardest in IJmuiden. 1,600 of the expected three thousand layoffs will happen in this city situated near the country’s capital. Two thirds of the jobs lost will be office and management functions. Trade union FNV immediately threatened to respond with strikes. Tata will meet the Central Works Council to discuss details.
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[close]According to the new prime minister, pensions ‘will increase next year’ and the budget planning, to be drafted during the coming couple of weeks, will factor in the necessary expenditures.
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[close]The increase of the minimum wage is not only a request of the trade unions, it is a necessity and it will be realised, stated the Romanian President after meeting government representatives to discuss economic matters (mainly the budget revision for this year and the budget planning for 2020).
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[close]Employers have taken damaging positions in this year’s negotiations that have started in October 2019, according to IndustriALL. Employers are demanding a lowering of labour costs and lengthening of working hours and, even more alarming, are trying to weaken trade unions by pushing for major restrictions of industrial action and destroying the system of deducting trade union membership fees from salaries. This could severely weaken trade unions’ financial capacity.
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[close]The CSOB banking group has published the results of research indicating that companies don’t really believe in the requalification of workers. Although the Employment Office spent 174 and 128 million CZK respectively in 2017 and 2018 (6.8 million and 5 million euros) on the requalification program, only one third of the companies was willing to hire a ‘requalified’ employee without any experience. More than 50% of companies would not hire such an employee at all. Most companies prefer their own education programmes.
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[close]Italian national carrier Alitalia has grounded a total of 137 flights and rescheduled many more on 25 November due to a four-hour strike called by several unions representing airport and airline workers, including air traffic controllers.
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[close]Members of Unison, Northern Ireland's largest health workers’ union, have gone on strike over pay and staffing levels. Unison represents about 25,000 healthcare workers including nurses, social care staff and support services, but not doctors.
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[close]Finland is feeling the brunt of a series of sympathy strikes staged in connection with the long-running dispute over the terms and conditions of 700 parcel-sorting employees at Posti, the Finnish state-owned postal services provider. Finnair announced it has cancelled more than 250 of its 377 scheduled flights. The cancellations and delays are caused by a one-day sympathy strike launched by the Finnish Aviation Union (IAU). The strike is expected to disrupt catering, customer service and ground-handling functions at airports across the country, including Helsinki Airport.
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