Unions at the national rail company NMBS have called on their members to strike on 2-3 October after negations with the Federal Government Minister responsible for public sector companies Paul Magnette (Francophone socialist) reached a dead end. The rail unions have been involved in negotiations about the future structure of the state-owned rail company and are in favour of an integrated company structure that includes both passenger services and the rail infrastructure. The governmental proposals do not include an integrated structure.
English: http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/news/120921_Rail_strike
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Another 18,900 temp jobs were lost over the second quarter of 2012, reports the Ministry of labour. The number of temporary workers fell in all sectors and reportedly continued to fall in July, leading to expectations for a further drop in the third quarter. Worst hit was the industrial sector, shedding 13,600 temporary workers, corresponding to over 5% of the total.
English: http://www.staffingindustry.com/eng/content/view/full/70920
Attempts to intimidate members of the Liepaja Port Staff Professional Organisation were successfully neutralised. Port managers had made accusations of theft against workers after attempts failed to breach the union's collective agreement by manipulating wages. The union disputed all the allegations. Appeal to the court with support from the Water Transport Unions' Federation of Latvia led to seven rejected applications from the employer to dismiss workers.
English: http://www.itfglobal.org/news-online/index.cfm/newsdetail/7905
Workers at the Portimao Port, a popular cruise destination, have gone on strike over unpaid overtime and being made to perform tasks not mentioned in the labour contracts. The strike will last until 24 September, while more strikes have already been scheduled. Local politicians have voiced concern over the income losses from turning away cruise ships and have called on the government to resolve the industrial conflict.
English: http://www.algarveresident.com/0-48897/algarve/no-endsight-to-port-workers ...
Oil workers unions and employers have reached a preliminary agreement that will be voted upon by union members. The deal includes a 4.5% wage increase and further increases. Trade union negotiators said the deal is very good in monetary terms but less so in regard to shift-work. The negotiations between on-and offshore workers and the oil industry were moved into state-led mediation after bilateral talks failed. If the deal is accepted, it will avoid a strike by services workers.
English: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-21/norway-oil-services-strike-may ...
Row over temporary workers piloting NAS planes
September 12, 2o12
The pilot union has threatened to take low-cost carrier NAS to court over the use of temporary workers based in Spain as pilots on well-established Scandinavian flights. Earlier this year NAS and the union, who is against the use of temporary workers, agreed that temporary staff would only be hired on new flight routes and not on well-established routes. NAS claims it has not broken the agreement.
English: http://www.staffingindustry.com/eng/Research-Publications ...
After negotiations between the trade unions and the management on 795 dismissals ended up in a dead end street the company formulated a threat not to invest in the region of Lige. Roger Blanpain, professor in labour law, called this a clear breach of the OECD code of conduct for transnational companies that says that during negotiations on working conditions there will never be a threat of relocation. In the meantime, as a result of social arbitration the parties have agreed to reopen talks on investment plans and on a social plan.
English: http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/news/120918_Arcelor_Mittal
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Dutch: http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/996/Economie ...
After Cargolux announced that all its departments will undergo an assessment due to the company's financial losses, rumours have started the company intends to move its plane maintenance operations to Qatar. Cargolux would neither confirm nor deny the rumours but has agreed to meet with trade union representatives.
English: http://www.wort.lu/en/view/employees-fear-outsourcing-of-plane-maintenance ...
In its annual update on pay developments in Europe Eurofound signals a considerable decline in real pay rates across almost all countries and sectors in 2011. The changes in collectively agreed pay increases in real terms were considerably lower in 2011 compared to 2010, with most countries presenting negative figures. According to the report Norway experienced the highest nominal collectively agreed pay increase (4.3%), followed by Slovakia (3.7%) and the Czech Republic (2.9%). Though the agreed increases in Austria, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia and Spain were higher in 2011 than in 2010, workers in Belgium, Germany and the UK did not see any considerable change year on year. The report also focuses on collectively agreed pay increases in three sectors, manufacturing (chemicals), services (retail) and the public sector (civil service), respectively. Finally it is noted that there were changes to the levels of statutory minimum wage in 15 of the 20 countries with such provision.
English: http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/press/releases/2012/120919.htm ...
Focus on the Pay developments 2011 report: http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/eiro ...
The government is set to launch a 10-point job protection action plan, which aims to improve the situation of disadvantaged employees, jobseekers and enterprises. The primary objective of the package is to create and preserve existing jobs as one of the keys to the economic growth of Hungary. The budgetary resources required for the action plan will be provided by the financial transaction duty. Prime Minister Viktor Orb n stressed in his weekly interview with public radio MR1, that the government will have the funds for the job protection action plan under any circumstance, even if it has to modify the financial transaction tax. The country's financial transaction tax, which the cabinet plans to introduce on 1 January 2013, has taken the centre stage over the past few days after the European Central Bank (ECB) said it would impair the MNB's functional and institutional independence. The government hopes to collect HUF 120 billion next year from the Bank in form of the FTT, but it would need to pay this back in 2014 so it would help improve the budget balance only on the surface.
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Due to indexation of wages, aligning them to fluctuations in living costs, pay will rise marginally by 1 October. The minimum wage will by increased from €1801.49 to €1846.51; personal pension insurances goes up to €1661.58, unemployment benefits to €1315.31 and child allowances increase by €76.88 per child. The price indexation is applied once a year.
English: http://www.wort.lu/en/view/indexation-brings-welcome-cash-boost ...