Poland
Federations covering all the main sectors within the Solidarnosc confederation came together this month to demand higher pay for public sector workers. With food and energy price rises exceeding pay increases for many public sector workers, Solidarnosc leader Janusz Sniadek talked about the importance of solidarity to support the protests of individual groups of workers for higher pay.
Read more at > Solidarnosc (EN)
(April 2017) All public service workers on less than €65000 a year benefit from higher pay scales as of 1 April. The €1000 increase has been brought forward and has been implemented as part of the restoration of pay cuts that were implemented from 2009. Next month a public service pay commission is due to report and then pay negotiations will begin which will include further steps to restore the pay cuts.
The EIRO industrial relations observatory reports that the LVSADA health union has called on the Latvian government to take action to ensure that salaries in the health sector are increased at least in line with average earnings. It is estimated that healthcare workers do the equivalent of 1.4 jobs and the practice of “thank you” payments is still widespread and seen as a way of supplementing the low pay rates in the sector, which lag behind the public sector as a whole. Read more at > EIRO (EN)
At the beginning of March the council of ROTAL the main public administration union passed a resolution detailing a wide range of demands on pay, conditions and collective bargaining. It criticised the government for implementing decrees on the pay of state officials and workers in state institutions without taking account of any of the ROTAL's proposed revisions. The union is also unhappy that public sector pay has failed to keep up with inflation and government proposals to cut income tax will hit the funding of state organisations. The resolution contains a list of specific demands on
