National air carrier LOT has announced it is cutting its labour force by 33% in an attempt to break even in 2014. The airline has been posting financial losses for many years and hopes to avert the trend by cuts in personnel numbers and a more effective use of its aircrafts. In the face of the bad results, LOT's supervisory board has fired its CEO.
English: http://www.warsawvoice.pl/WVpage/pages/article.php/23363/news
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A recent report by the Deloitte legal European network of law firms concludes that dismissal costs in Bulgaria are relatively low, in line with most other Central Eastern European member states. On the other hand, Bulgaria and other countries in the region do require much more extensive motivation from the side of the employer before allowing dismissals.
English: http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=146649
The Food Workers Union (NGG) has started actions against outsourcing at Dutch-based transnational company Vion. The meat company has announced it will be outsourcing its slaughtering operations in Emsteck (Lower Saxony) to a Romanian company, which pays poor wages. The unions are protesting against the company's practices to outsource operations in order to pay foreign workers less than German employees. The unions demand a minimum hourly wage of €8.50 and equal pay for everyone.
English: http://cms.iuf.org/?q=node/2189
Recent disagreements between trade unions LCGB and OBGL have led the unions to seek separate talks with cabinet ministers to represent their workers. While LCGB made a statement that its separate action is a reaction to OBGL attempts to monopolise workers' representation, others have called on both unions to put aside personal feuds and put workers' interests first.
English: http://www.wort.lu/en/view/lcgb-blames-obgl-for-union-discord ...
Representatives of the National Association of Officers' Trade Unions (NPPSS) claim that if law enforcement was strengthened crime and black economy would decrease, therefore the ruling coalition should start implementing reforms with law enforcement. Otherwise, officers promise to start protests at the beginning of Lithuanian Presidency of the European Union. NPPSS says that they are planning meetings with politicians during which they will present their propositions how to resolve issues in law enforcement. They will submit reform-related draft projects.
English: http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/32400/
Changes in labour law have introduced more possibilities for employers to hire personnel on fixed-term and project contracts. The requirement for employers to provide a reason for hiring a fixed-term worker has been removed in favour of conditions that the contract cannot be renewed and that it cannot cover a period of more than one year. Project workers can now be hired as long as they work on a genuine project that is not part of the company's core businesses and do not do repetitive work. Provisions have been added to both clauses that allow conditions to be relaxed in national collective agreements.
English: http://www.staffingindustry.com/eng/content/view/full/97414
ETUC economic advisor Ronald Janssen criticizes the fact that nowadays wages and collective bargaining systems are perceived by the European Institutions as `rigidity'. This is perfectly clear from the 2013 country specific recommendations, where the European Commission singled out 16 Member States that were called upon to reform their wage indexation systems, weaken sector bargaining systems and decentralize bargaining to the company level, limit the increase in minimum wages and increase wage flexibility at the lower end of the pay scale. If such recommendations were to become part of an enforceable contract between the Commission and Member States, then social Europe will definitely be gone. According to Janssen the unions need to make sure that the regulation contains a `wage safeguard clause' and that the legal basis of these regulations refers to those Treaty articles which protect wages and social dialogue when the Commission designs new economic regulations such as the contractual reform arrangements.
English: http://www.powerinaunion.co.uk/trade-unions-are-stronger-than-they-might-think/
http://www.social-europe.eu/2013/12/trade-unions-are-stronger-than-they-might-think/
Hundreds of agency staff are still waiting for back pay worth €2.5m; a year after a European Union ruling that they must be paid the same as Health Service Executive (HSE) workers. The Temporary Agency Work Act was introduced in 2013 and since July agency staff have been paid the same as directly employed workers doing the same job. The agency nurses and care assistants are owed eight months of back pay starting from December 2011 and have now been told that it will be early 2013 before they get it.
English: http://www.independent.ie/national-news/agency-health-workers-owed-25m ...
The national television channel NOS reported on a cross-border jobs initiative that has been set up along the northern Dutch-German border in an effort to help German firms fill their vacancies. The unemployment rate in the northern German border regions varies from 2% to 3% while it can be over 9% in the Dutch northern provinces. Many of the German firms are family-run companies which need staff, prompting the development of the euregio jobs platform Jobrobotor, which now has some 60,000 jobs online.
English: http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/12/dutch_german_jobs_initiative ... http://www.euregio-jobroboter.com/
Watford postal workers had objected to changes in working patterns and staged an official strike, which quickly spread when other workers refused to accept mail held up in Watford. Around 15,000 workers joined the unofficial walkouts in several regions, including London, the North West, the North East and Kent, paralysing 19 mail centres and 72 delivery offices. As officials of the Communication Workers Union and the Royal Mail reached a peace deal the strike ended.
English: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-48994/Massive-mail-backlog ...