Eurofound News June 2012

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54% – the share of women in employment in hotels and restaurants across the EU27 Employment and industrial relations in the hotels and restaurants sector
250 – the number of new jobs that Austrian cable assembly manufacturer Gebauer & Griller Kabeltechnik plans to create in Mikulov in the Czech Republic in 2012 European Restructuring Monitor, May 2012
5%–20% – national estimates of the proportion of workers who are either addicted to alcohol or are at risk of becoming addicted to alcohol in the EU Use of alcohol and drugs at the workplace
6m – the number of older workers in the EU who work part time (22% – compared with 28% of younger workers and 16% of core-age workers) Employment trends and policies for older workers in the recession
26% – the rate of unemployment among young people under 25 in Cyprus (Dec 2011) Efforts to reverse record unemployment levels
340,000 – the number of workers covered by the Italian banking sector’s new national collective agreement Renewal of banking sector’s national collective agreement
0.6% – the share of freight transport by rail of the total land freight transport in Ireland in 2009 (the smallest share in Europe and a dramatic decline from around 10% in 1990) Employment and industrial relations in the railways sector

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