Annual reports
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12 October 2011: Industrial relations and working conditions developments in Europe 2010 [or view as 
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With a particular focus on the crisis and responses to it, this annual review highlights developments in working conditions and industrial relations in the EU Member States and Norway in 2010, both at national and EU level. At national level, the report examines key issues covered by collective bargaining (pay and working time) and looks at developments in social partner activity and industrial action. It also looks at company restructuring, the impact of the crisis and approaches to pension reform in light of demographic change. At European level, it reviews the year’s main events and trends in employment legislation and policy (in areas like paternity/maternity leave and working time), as well as in the European social dialogue at cross-sectoral, sectoral and company levels. The final chapter focuses on training initiatives provided or supported by enterprises for their employees during the recession.
14 September 2011: Pay developments – 2010 [or view as 
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EIRO’s annual analysis of pay trends for 2010 finds that average collectively agreed nominal wage increases were lower than in 2009 in almost all 13 countries with available data, with Malta being the exception. The highest reductions in nominal pay increases were in Slovakia (5.5% in 2009 to 2.2% in 2010), Austria (3.4% to 1.6%), the Netherlands (2.7% to 1%) and Belgium (2.5% to 1%). Taking into account inflation, 2010 marked a turning point in many countries as collectively agreed pay did not compensate for price developments. Real increases in collectively agreed pay were negative in the UK (-1.5%), Belgium (-1.3%) and Austria (-0.1%), and only moderate increases were recorded in the Czech Republic (1.9%), Slovakia (1.5%) and Portugal (1%). The report also examines collectively agreed pay increases in three selected sectors (metal, banking and local governments), developments on minimum wages and youth pay rates, and gender issues in collective pay setting.
25 July 2011: Working time developments – 2010 [or view as size 530 kb]
In 2010, average collectively agreed weekly working time in the European Union stood at 38 hours. The figure was 0.4 hours lower in the pre-2004 EU15 and 1.7 hours higher in the new Member States. Agreed normal annual working time averages around 1,708 hours – around 1,693 hours in the EU15 and 1,797 in the new Member States. Of three sectors examined, agreed weekly hours are longest in metalworking and local government (37.8 hours), and shortest in banking (37.3 hours). Average collectively agreed paid annual leave entitlement stood at 25.4 days across the EU in 2010, being higher among countries in the EU15 (where it was 25.6 days) than in the 12 new Member States (24.1 days).