Social partners in the textile sector in Germany have agreed a new wage deal that will offer a 4.4% increase overall to 100,000 employees in the Länder of the former West Germany. The accord also ...
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Estonian trade unions won substantial pay rises in a new collective agreement in the healthcare sector, concluded at the end of April 2017. Wages have been increased this year by 5% for doctors ...
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The British TUC has been travelling up and down the country in advance of the UK elections, demanding a pay rise. The #payrise tour rolled into the north-east of England on 1 June, where TUC ...
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The Belgian government has made ‘competitiveness’ into its Holy Grail. This quest was regulated by the Law “on the promotion of employment and preventive safeguarding of ...
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Sectoral collective bargaining still does not exist in the automotive industry in Poland. However, as a result of ongoing company negotiations, trade unions have been able to secure monthly wage ...
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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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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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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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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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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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