The '4-Day Week Ireland' group is the homegrown leg of an international coalition of unions, business, environmental and women's groups who are promoting the benefits of a shorter working week.
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Jaguar Land Rover will halt production at British factories for a week in November, joining BMW and Toyota in staging a shutdown to mitigate potential disruption from a no-deal Brexit.more
The 700 or so Thomas Cook employees at the tour operator's offices on Palma's Can Valero industrial estate are unlikely to be paid this month. Local management explained to the employees on Tuesday that all indications are that salaries won't be paid. A final decision will be announced on Friday.more
While thousands of holidaymakers were waiting in overseas airports for the government's emergency airlift to get them home and Thomas Cook staff were losing their jobs, former bosses of the stricken travel firm came under fire for receiving payouts worth more than £35m in the last 12 years.more
British Airways pilots have called off a strike due next Friday, the union said. The second strike, following action on 9 and 10 September, was scheduled for 27 September.more
Unemployment in Sweden in August was 7.1 percent, compared to 6.1 percent. a year ago - the Swedish Statistical Office informed. This is the highest level of unemployment in four years, which - according to experts - indicates a downturn.more
The percentage of Ukrainian workers who would like to permanently move to Poland has increased - pointed out the second edition of the sociological survey "Ukrainians on the Polish labor market".more
About one in 20 workers does not get paid holidays, while one in 10 does not get a payslip, according to a report by the Resolution Foundation think tank.more
The way to supplement the labor resources in Poland is the return of Poles from emigration - Jaroslaw Kaczynski, PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński, said in "Sygnały Dnia" in PR1. He assured that the planned increase in the minimum wage would not lead to bankruptcy of small companies.more
From 2020, the minimum wage for work will be PLN 2,600 gross, and from January 1, 2021 we declared PLN 3,000 gross - Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said. Thus, the minimum hourly rate in 2020 will be PLN 17 gross.more
An increase in the minimum wage by a third in just a year is a violation of the laws of economics and the principles of a competitive market - alert Employers of the Republic of Poland. Polish entrepreneurs also pointed out that the irrational increase in the minimum wage will lead the Polish economy to the edge of the abyss.more
A 24-year-old from Catalonia who sued his divorced parents after they refused to keep supporting him financially, lost his case because a judge ruled "relatives cannot be expected to maintain the illusions or expectations" of someone who is an adult.more
There are as many as four and a half times less than five years ago candidates for employment in the civil service in Poland - we can read in today's Rzeczpospolita.more
August was the month of Spain with the largest increase in the number of unemployed since the economic crisis of 2008-10, the Madrid labor ministry said on Tuesday. In comparison with July this year. over 54.3 thous. people.more
