The Bulgarian government has approved the bill on the 2020 state social security budget. The bill envisages increase in pensions by 6.7% as of 1 July 2020. The bill also proposes changes to the Social Security Code related to the implementation of the state social insurance budget, as well as some amendments that detail provisions on insured persons’ rights.
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[close]The union of dock workers has given an ultimatum to the Setúbal port authorities to review the recent hiring of an external worker, in violation of the collective labour contract signed with the dockers. The Turkey-based port operating group, Yılport Holding Inc., has admitted to hiring a worker who does not belong to the temporary workers’ dockers group that is engaged in the operations at Setúbal.
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[close]Several important collective agreements in the technology industry are nearing their expiry date. Altogether these agreements cover 296,000 employees. In spite of the tight schedule no results are near in sight during this current round of collective bargaining. The most difficult question is the fate of the 24 unpaid annual extra working hours, forced on employees by government in 2016. The negotiations between Trade Union Pro and the Federation of Finnish Technology Industries stopped altogether for several weeks due to the excessive list of demands presented by the employers. Now the negotiations have re-started.
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[close]Wage growth remained in the double-digit territory with robust public sector data. The Hungarian average gross and net wage growth accelerated in August by 11.5% year-on-year. The strengthening wage pressure is mainly due to the public sector, where the pace of growth picked up. After a 7.1% reading in July, August wage growth came in at 11.7% year-on-year - the second-highest this year.
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[close]The gender pay gap has widened for the first time in six years despite the disparity narrowing to almost nothing among younger workers, new figures have shown. Among full-time workers, women were paid 8.9% less than men this year, a rise of 0.3 percentage points from 2018, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. Although the increase was small, it reversed the long-term pattern in which the gap has narrowed. The figure has been falling since 2013, when it stood at 10 per cent for full-time employees.
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[close]The Hungarian unemployment rate increased marginally, on seasonal factors. The unemployment rate for the 15–64 age group came in at 3.5% in September, up 0.1 ppt month-on-month. Developments of recent months reveal a minor upward trend that, however, has nothing to do with the signs of a slowdown seen in the real economy. Seasonally adjusted data is stable. The number of employed remained above 4.44 million.
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[close]A typical four-member family living off the minimum wage would not be able to make ends meet, with even basic food expenditure exceeding the minimum wage, says Turkey’s biggest trade union confederation. The Turk-Is research, which has been conducted every month for 32 years, is prepared independently, without using the price data collected by the Turkish Statistical Institute, the authority responsible for producing official statistics in the country. The minimum monthly wage, enforced by law, applies to a large number of employees in the country as more than one-third of Turkey’s 30 million-strong labor force is paid it.
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[close]Every year entrepreneurs from Ruggell meet to find out about current trends. This year over 200 people gathered in the community hall. The following question was the guiding theme: What does the ‘workplace of the future’ look like? The panel discussion after the presentation showed that the workplace of tomorrow has not yet arrived.
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[close]In September, industriAll Europe launched its European campaign ‘Together at Work’, which aims to promote the benefits of collective bargaining for workers, but also for the economy and the entire society. Many European countries build or rebuild their collective-bargaining systems, to ensure that a large majority of workers will enjoy the protection of collective agreements. The ‘Together at Work’ campaign shows that Europe needs collective bargaining with solid structures, but also with strong trade unions and representative employers’ organisations, which negotiate inclusive collective agreements of benefit to all.
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[close]In the fifth round of negotiations, employers and workers have agreed on a new collective agreement for the metalworking industry. Starting from November 2019 a wage increase by 2.7% is foreseen for the approximately 130,000 employees in the industry. This is somewhere between the 4.5% demanded by the union and the 1.8% offered by the employers.
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