Women managers lose out on pay
Female managers in the EU earn almost one-quarter (23.4%) less, on average, than their male counterparts. In other words, women in management earn just 77 cents for every euro a man makes per ...
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Slovak trade unions secure 6% pay rise in the public sector
After a tough bargaining round, Slovak unions have secured a collective agreement providing a 6% pay rise in the public sector for 2017. The agreement covers 350,000 workers and foresees an ...
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Czech social and healthcare workers make the case for fair wages
As part of the Czech trade unions’ ‘End Cheap Labour’ initiative (#KonecLevnePrace), the health and social services union OSZSP has launched a campaign to boost wages in the social services ...
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Slovenian unions take a united stand on pay
Trade unions in Slovenia have agreed to combine their efforts to achieve higher wages and a fair wage system. Industrial trade unions affiliated to the Association of Free Trade Unions of ...
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Wage convergence in Europe has reversed since the crisis: socially unjust and economically damaging
Béla Galgóczi, Senior Researcher at the ETUI The average annual gross wage in the Czechia in 1993 was just over EUR 2000, the equivalent of 13% of the German average. By 2008, this figure had ...
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Workers in Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic worse off today than in 2008 compared to German workers
Wage inequality between pay in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, and pay in Germany, is bigger today than it was in 2008. According to figures in a Working Paper ‘Why central and eastern ...
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The super-rich get richer in the UK
The latest Sunday Times Rich List, published in May, reveals bigger-than-ever fortunes for the elite but growing band of billionaires in the UK. The country’s 1,000 wealthiest individuals and ...
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The Stakes: Inequality
By Professor Danny Dorling Whether measured by the Gini coefficient for OECD countries, or by the take of the top 10%, income inequality rates in the UK today are the worst in all of Europe. The ...
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