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Luxembourgish commissioner Nicolas Schmit this week warned "we need more doctors" and said it was imperative to make the job more attractive, especially in rural areas, to avoid the risk of ‘medical deserts’ arising. “Medical deserts are a reality, and this has to be seriously taken into account,” the EU Commissioner for Social Rights explained during a press conference in Brussels (20 March). A parallel shortage is affecting the care work sector in the context of increasing demand for their services in an ageing society, Schmit said in the presentation of a new action plan to tackle labour an...
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Carrefour has more than 12,000 stores across the world, with about 5,000 in France alone. Since 2018, some 300 stores have become franchises and the trend looks set to increase. The French union CFDT claims resorting to franchises en masse leads to major disadvantages for staff. Although still operating under the Carrefour banner, franchised employees do not enjoy the protection of a multinational company and its strong unions, which can result in them losing previously acquired advantages. The union said that the franchise system has resulted in workers' annual earnings dropping by more than ...
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Employees in the UK may be looking at a drop in salary increases this year as employers cut back on their hiring plans, according to a new report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). The findings come from a survey conducted last month, involving 2,006 employers and focusing on their approaches to pay, staffing levels, and job vacancies. After staying at 5% for some time, expected basic pay rises have dropped to 4%, marking the first fall since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. Within the private sector, the average expected basic pay increase was down from 5...
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The chair of the European Parliament’s Employment and Social Affairs Committee (EMPL), Dragos Pîslaru, has today written to the parliament’s President Roberta Metsola seeking withdrawal of Amazon’s representatives' access badges for its premises. This came after the US online marketplace did not participate in a parliamentary hearing in Brussels scheduled for 23 January, and missed planned committee debates about workers' rights and freedoms in 2021 and 2023. Lawmakers set up these discussions with the aim to “better understand media-revealed reports suggesting potential monitoring of Amazon's...
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Local buses, trams and subway trains were canceled in much of Germany on Friday as transport employees walked off the job in the country's third transport-related strike in two weeks. The Ver.di service workers' union called for a “warning strike,” a common tactic in German contract negotiations, on Monday. Its deputy chair, Christine Behle, said that “the time has now come to exert more pressure on employers” as talks on new pay contracts for about 90,000 people employed by over 130 local transport operators have failed to make progress. The exact demands and the length of Friday's walkouts v...
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Between inflation, the cost of living crisis, and the overall geopolitical situation, there are plenty of reasons to be in a grim mood. But it seems that we’re most anxious about our futures when at work. A newly published survey from a health services and technologies provider Telus Health has found that the mental health of people in six European countries is increasingly at risk. Overall, workers’ mental health has declined in four countries - Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain - by October 2023 compared to April, with 38 per cent of workers overall saying they were at high risk of ...
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New York (AFP) - A monument to essential workers who risked their lives during the pandemic will open in New York in September, Governor Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday. Nineteen red maple trees -- one for each profession considered essential, like health care workers, teachers and store workers -- will be arrayed around an eternal flame in Battery Park in view of the Statue of Liberty, according to renderings released by the governor's office. The new monument will be called the Circle of Heroes. It was designed with input from essential workers, Cuomo said. "While we will never be able to fully ...
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A new report by the Main Street Alliance shows how small businesses suffer when large corporations take advantage of lax enforcement of labor laws and the use of forced arbitration to keep employees from asserting their rights. The report, titled Small Business, Common Sense Standards and Forced Arbitration, also recommends that states enact whistleblower protection laws. Read the Report Lip Service To Small Business OwnersNearly 60 million Americans work for small businesses. And yet some politicians, while paying lip service to small business owners, have time and again enacted policies that...
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