Between January and October 2012, the National Employment Rights Agency (NERA) conducted 1,064 inspections for compliance with the National Minimum Wage Act and in 530 it found that employers were not meeting their legal responsibilities. The hourly rate of the national minimum wage is €8.65. The inspections resulted in the recovery of €264,835 in unpaid wages, along with 56 District Court convictions for non-compliance with the minimum wage requirement and other offences and 34 prosecutions for breaches of Labour Court orders.
English: http://www.siptu.ie/media/pressreleases2012/mainnews/fullstory_16834_en.html
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The government has announced new regulations for collective redundancies, which will reduce the notice period from 90 to 45 days and exclude fixed term workers from obligations for collective redundancies consultation. The Trade Union Congress called the reform outrageous. It will not create any news jobs but hit the least protected employees hardest. The new regulations will come into force in April 2013.
English: http://www.staffingindustry.com/eng/content/view/full/97026
According to World Bank estimates, growth is expected to slow to as little as 1.5% in 2013, from 2.1% in 2012. That still compares favourably with the neighbouring euro zone, where most countries are either in recession or just barely growing. With a gross domestic product of €369.7 billion in 2011, according to the European data agency Eurostat, Poland ranked ninth among the 27 E.U. countries, just below Belgium and a rung above Austria.
English: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/18/business/global/poland-finds-its-not-immune ...
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said in a report that Sweden should do more for those excluded from the job market, saying high minimum wages and poorly targeted integration policies were leaving some groups mired in poverty. To boost employment in some groups such as youth with limited education, some immigrants, and those on sickness and disability benefits the country should lower wages for entry-level jobs, improve vocational and academic training, and ensure active labour market policies were better targeted to individual needs. The unemployment rate stood at 7.6% in 2011, compared with an 8.2% average for the organisation's member countries. However, youth unemployment was comparatively high at 22.9%, compared with 16.2% in the OECD.
English: http://www.thelocal.se/45122/20121217/#.UOAuyKxXuSo http://www.oecd.org/sweden/sweden2012.htm
Meter staff at E.on have organised a one-day strike and will refuse overtime and goodwill from 2 January. The meter staff is protesting against a loss in real wages of employees, while managers receive substantial wage increases. The strike will be followed by an overtime ban and removal of goodwill from midnight on Wednesday, 2 January 2013 until the dispute is resolved.
English: http://www.unitetheunion.org/news/eonmeterstafftostageonedaystrike ...
http://union-news.co.uk/2012/12/e-on-strike-today/
100 employees could be made redundant at oil service company Kaefer. Union representatives fear for staff safety as there is a lot of hiring-in employees, people move around, work a lot, and cannot always prepare themselves as properly as they should. They get tired, fed-up, and become unfocused. Unions at Kaefer and other ISO-certified companies tell of many disputes over so-called average calculation of working hours. Trade union Safe reacts to the fact that employers believe the scheme allows staff to work a lot at times, against time off at others, and without compensation for changes to the normal work schedule.
English: http://www.aftenbladet.no/energi/aenergy/Oil-workers-extremely-uneasy ...
For the `Symposium Against Discriminations', unionists from Belgium, the Netherlands and Turkey were gathering in Ankara for the labour rights of LGBTs. During the symposium, organised by Kaos GL during the International Human Rights Day, the access of LGBTs to the health and labour rights were discussed.
English: http://www.kaosgl.org/page.php?id=12946
The government has to come up with approximately €400m in December to meet its payroll obligations, including public workers' 13th salaries. It expects most of this sum from profitable semi-government organisations (SGOs) in the form of loans and is walking a fine line between international and domestic lenders, trying to convince both that it pays its debts, in an effort to keep the state afloat until the EU/IMF bailout arrives. Despite great opposition from the unions, the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CyTA) board has agreed on a €100m three-month loan from the company's pension fund at an interest rate of 5.5 per cent. Unions representing half of the CyTA staff only decided to call off an indefinite strike after the House Finance Committee agreed to discuss the issue.
English: http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/state-needs-400m-december-payroll ...
The ministry of education announced that the starting salaries of junior, senior and supervising teachers will be increased by 12%. The hike of starting salaries is accompanied by a 7% increase across the board.
English: http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=146062
Minimum wages for assistants in private kindergartens regulated by the Ministry of Social Affairs will go up by €45 to €1325 per month from 1 January 2013 on. It is the first nation-wide minimum wage in private kindergartens. At the same time, minimum wages for au-pairs working a maximum of 20 hours per week will go up to €386.80. Private kindergartens, children's groups and child care providers receive funding, enabling most of these providers to accept a number of children free of charge. Besides, a compulsory kindergarten year for all five-year olds was introduced. Between the start of 2009 and 2011 a total of 6,500 new places in kindergartens were created.
English: http://www.epsu.org/r/163
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