An Yle-commissioned poll asked 1000 Finns what would be the best way to extend working careers. Less than 20% were in favour of later retirement. One in five of the interviewees in their 20's thought this would be a good idea. Meanwhile, those in the 25-34 year age group, many of whom are in the busiest period of their careers, were less enthusiastic. Of them, only about 10% said they would want to work beyond the standard age of retirement.
English: http://yle.fi/uutiset/majority_rejects_later_retirement/6429204
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The cabin crew union and national air carrier Estonia Air have reached a collective agreement. The agreement will be valid until the end of 2013 and keeps wages on the level of 2008, avoiding wage cuts. Cabin crew productivity is announced to go up. The Pilots Trade Association is still negotiating their collective agreement with Estonia Air. The airline's management has not contacted the union since a strike was announced December 21 and was not seeking ways of averting the strike
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http://news.err.ee/economy/30df99a7-06db-47a7-8139-9bf74daa1ff2
The share of the unemployed in the total active population (employed and unemployed) increased to 22.4%, i.e. 21.5% for male and 23.7% for female workers. The unemployment rate in October 2012 decreased by 3.1%, compared to April 2012. The percentage of the employed in the total population aged 15 and over in October 2012, increased to 36.7%. The employment rate of males was 44.0%, of females 29.8%. Also the informal employment in the non-declared (black) sector of the economy increased.
English: http://www.friedlnews.com/article/serbia-labor-market-still-tensioned
The second strike of health care workers in the Madrid region (following a two-day strike reported in the November newsletter) ended after five weeks. Doctors called off the strike after failing to halt plans to privatise six hospitals and dozens of clinics. Rallies organised by healthcare unions in the capital drew thousands of doctors and their supporters. To reinforce the protestors' demands of stopping the planned privatisation, more than 100 directors announced they wanted to present their resignations to the regional parliament on 27 December - the day the deputies voted on the privatisation plan. However, the region's elected assembly approved the plan.
English: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/12/28/uk-spain-doctors ... http://elpais.com/elpais/2012/12/21/inenglish/1356090936_624875.html http://elpais.com/elpais/2012/12/14/inenglish/1355517635_085624.html
Four years of economic turmoil and the euro zone's highest jobless rate have made the Spanish labour market so inviting - the New York Times estimates the labour costs 40% less expensive than those of Europe's other biggest car-making countries, Germany and France - that Ford and Renault recently announced plans to expand their production in Spain. Unlike most other industries, car manufacturing has no sector-wide collective bargaining agreement with unions. As a result, each carmaker has been able to adjust working hours with its own employees.
English: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/28/business/global/car-factories-offer-hope ...
On Monday 26 December, London's underground train service was virtually halted by a strike over pay, disrupting the start of the post-Christmas sales and some scheduled football matches. Most lines were shut or operating a vastly reduced service, but shoppers used cars, buses and taxis to reach retail outlets. Members of the London Underground train drivers' union ASLEF voted overwhelmingly to hold a 24-hour strike on 26 December, a public holiday in the UK known as Boxing Day, and on three more dates in the coming weeks. The union demanded additional pay and leave for staff who were due to work on Boxing Day.
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A survey of the Bulgarian Industrial Capital Association (BICA) shows that 25% of sales in the country belong to the grey economy. According to the report labour law violations have changed. The share of employees working without a labour contract fell from 28.4% in 2010 to 22.2% in 2012. The survey of BICA shows that the trend has shifted in favour of contracts with fictitious clauses. The cases of payment of wages below the minimum for the respective sector are also decreasing. According to the comment of a representative of the Bulgarian Industrial Association (BIA) grey practices on the labour market are work without employment contract, lowered social security payments, envelope payments, etc.
English: http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=145726 http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=146367
Members of the Aslef union have walked out for 24 hours from after voting 9-1 in favour of strike action. The London Underground drivers have gone on strike in a long-running row over bank holiday pay. Large parts of the service have been disrupted as a result and more buses were brought in. According to an Aslef spokesman the members voted by over 90% to take industrial action on Boxing Day because London Underground refused to open discussions until a few weeks ago. The union has been seeking extra pay for its members for working on 26 December; at the discussions the company offered `precisely nothing'.
English: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20842799
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20757141
http://union-news.co.uk/2012/12/why-were-on-strike-today-aslef/
The National Association of Young General Practitioners (SNJMG), which claims to represent around 1,200 general practitioners, resident physicians, relief doctors and interns, says a limited strike during the Christmas holiday period over what it says are deteriorating working conditions will run until New Year's Day. Doctors are overloaded with work, and that creates frustration all around.
English: http://www.english.rfi.fr/france/20121224-young-doctors-france-go-holiday-strike
When the country held examinations to fill teaching positions in its public schools for the first time since 1999, it set off something of a nationwide frenzy among the country's despairing, underemployed and unemployed educators. More than 321,000 people applied to take the tests, pursuing just 11,500 job openings. The unemployment rate is over 11% generally and nearly 14% for people ages 24 to 35. But it was a sign of how widely the country's economic pain has spread that the average age of candidates taking the test this year was over 38.
English: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/world/europe/italys-woes-are-visible ...