A Randstad Monitor reveals that 45% of employees expect their income to grow, down from 80% at the end of 2010, as 60% believe that their employer will not raise their salary. Some 78% of employees think that the economic situation will worsen. In the survey of 32 countries, only Greek employees were more pessimistic, with 94% predicting a gloomier future.
English: http://www.realdeal.hu/20130111/survey-finds-only-greek-workers-more-pessimistic ...
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After four years of organising, trade union Petrol-Is received its certificate of recognition from the ministry of labour and has started collective negotiations with Standard Profil. In order to receive recognition, the union had to prove that it organised more than half of the workforce at the company. Standard Profil, a supplier of automotive sealing systems for many car companies, has constantly resisted unionisation of its factories, firing 37 union activists over the past years.
English: http://www.industriall-union.org/union-recognized-at-standard-profil-in-turkey ...
The cabinet has adopted a bill reducing the statutory redundancy pay from one month to twelve days per year of service. Years worked until October 2013 will continue to be count for 1 month of redundancy pay, those from November 2013 until the coming into force of the bill will be reduced to 20 days and all years after the coming into force will be reduced to 12 days redundancy pay.
English: http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/redundancy-pay-to-be-slashed-to-12-days ...
Latvia is often portrayed as the country where labour did not fight back, but simply emigrated politely and quietly. No general strikes, nor destruction of private property or violence, it is presented as a country where labour had the good sense to not make a fuss when faced with austerity. In a critical article it is shown how the country's economic disaster is heralded as a `neo-liberal success story'.
English: http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/direct_speech/?doc=68375
The Economic and Social Council has expressed its support for a draft amendment to the law on public procurement prepared by Interior Minister Robert Kalin k. Representatives of both employees and employers had several comments on the proposed measures and agreed that before the law is discussed in parliament the tripartite body will meet.
English: http://spectator.sme.sk/articles/view/48692/10/social_partners_support ...
Virgin Megastore has announced it is closing its 26 stores in France, were currently a 1000 people are employed. Trade unions organised protests outside the company's flagship megastore on the Champs Elyses. The chain has gone bust and all its shops look set to close.
English: http://www.english.rfi.fr/culture/20130107-french-virgin-megastore ...
http://www.euronews.com/2013/01/09/virgin-france-workers-protest-at-closure-threat/
According to the trade unions the public transport in several cities lacks enough staff to guarantee enough checks are being carried out on Austrian railway BB S-Bahn trains. A trade union spokesperson said that if `you don't do proper controls 2 to 3 weeks as is now the case then you are finding up to 30 per cent of the people are travelling without a ticket'.
English: http://austriantimes.at/news/General_News/2013-01-08 ...
The number of the jobless registered with the Croatian Employment Service (HZZ) reached 358,214 workers by the end of 2012. The official statistics show an absolute increase of 42,775 unemployed and a relative change of 13.6%.
English: http://dalje.com/en-croatia/number-of-jobless-exceeds-360000/454873
http://www.hzz.hr/DocSlike/statistike/mjesecna_statistika_engleski/Mjesecna_statistika ...
After metalworkers' union IG Metall fought for improvements in the treatment of temporary workers and more assistance for trainees in the last bargaining round, the union's main focus in the new round beginning in May 2013 will be on money. Also public service union Ver.di's recipe against the erosion of society is that wages have to go up, and by a significant amount. In the current collective bargaining round, Ver.di is calling for a 6.5% pay increase - the highest in years - for public sector employees. The economy got through the euro crisis in much better shape than almost all of its neighbours. Employment, at more than 41 million, is at the highest level ever recorded, and many companies have recently reported record profits. Nevertheless, most employees have less disposable income, when adjusted for inflation, than they did 10 years ago.
English: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-trade-unions-demanding ...
Unemployment in the euro zone rose to a new high in November 2013, according to data released by Eurostat. 18.8 million people in the euro zone were unemployed in November, two million more than a year earlier. A separate report from Eurostat showed that retail sales fell 2.6 per cent in November from a year earlier, though they gained 0.1 per cent from October. The Federal Statistics Office in Berlin reported that German exports declined 3.4 per cent while imports slid 3.7 per cent in November from a month earlier. Giving his annual report on employment trends, the report Employment and Social Developments in Europe 2013, European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion Laszlo Andor said that 2013 has been another very bad year for Europe in terms of unemployment and the deteriorating social situation. A new divide is emerging between countries that seem trapped in a downward spiral of falling output, fast rising unemployment and eroding disposable incomes and those that have so far shown good or at least some resilience. Andor stated that `appropriate labour market reforms and improvements in the design of welfare systems' could make countries more resilient to economic shocks'.
English: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/09/business/global/daily-euro-zone-watch ...
http://en.mercopress.com/2013/01/08/euro-zone-unemployment-up-for-19th-month ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jan/08/eurozone-unemployment-hits-new-high
http://ec.europa.eu/social/main ...