Latest collective bargaining trends

The Eurofound annual survey of working time for 2014 reveals few major changes across Europe. At the cross sector level figures for average collectively agreed working time showed small changes in the UK (-0.3 hours), Slovakia (-0.1 hours), Sweden (+0.1 hours) and Spain (+0.5 hours, after an increase of 0.3 hours in 2013. In its sector analysis, there are figures for public administration which show an increase of 1.1 hours in Spain (to a weekly average of 36.7 hours) and a reduction in the UK of 0.5 hours (down to 37.2 hours). [Read more at > Eurofound->http://www.eurofound.europa.eu

A review of minimum wage developments by the Eurofound research agency found that rates were raised cautiously in most Member States from 2020 to 2021, with a median increase of 3%. Some Member States stuck to previously announced commitments (Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia, Portugal and Slovenia) while only a few decided to freeze the minimum wage into 2021, including Belgium, Estonia, Greece and Spain, as well as Cyprus for the occupational rates. There were few crisis-related adaptations of minimum wage regulations, confined to the postponement of procedures (Greece and Poland), the renunciation