Jul 02, 2023 at 5:04 PMUpdate: 2 days ago
Because the negative news often dominates NU.nl, the positive news sometimes snows under. That is why we list cheerful messages. With this week: The wage increase this month was a record and a seventeen-year-old breakdancer from The Hague is going to the Olympic Games.
Record increase in June: 8.4 percent more wages in new collective labor agreements
Wages in new collective labor agreements rose by an average of 8.4 percent in June, which is a record. At the same time, wages rose faster than prices, as inflation amounted to 5.7 percent in the same month.
Despite the unrest and strikes in many sectors, many collective labor agreements are concluded. This month there were 28 collective labor agreements for 250,000 employees, according to provisional figures from employers’ association AWVN. “A number of collective agreements still have to be processed, so it could be even higher,” said a spokesman.
Breakdancer India Sardjoe (17) seizes historic ticket for Olympic Games
Breakdancer India Sardjoe from The Hague qualified for the Olympic Games in Paris on Tuesday. The seventeen-year-old won gold at the European Games, qualifying directly for the new Olympic component.
Sardjoe is regarded as a greatness in her sport. Last year she won the European title, after which the then sixteen-year-old Dutch was crowned the youngest world champion ever in New York.
“I’m very happy. It was a tough day because it was such a long program,” Sardjoe told ANP. “But I am very happy that I made it. The stress is all gone now. I have a direct ticket for the Olympic Games, I can hardly believe it.”
Rijkswaterstaat is looking at six solutions for a narrow channel to Ameland
Rijkswaterstaat is investigating six possible solutions for the ever-silting up fairway from the Frisian Holwert to Ameland. And that’s good news people who live on the island or want to go there on holiday. Because the shipping company that sails between the two places has drastically reduced the number of sailings this week due to the increasingly narrow channel.
The solutions are part of two main interventions that the service is also investigating: moving the ferry dam in Holwert, so that the ferries can sail a different route, or optimizing the current ferry connection. Rijkswaterstaat expects to be able to send advice to Minister Mark Harbers of Infrastructure and Water Management this summer.
Even more news to make you happy
And there was more good news this week. Among other things, these messages, with big or small news, gave us a smile at the editor:
Unilaterally scrapping breaks, surcharges or small allowances: companies in various sectors do this regularly. But according to labor law experts, this is not allowed, they told NU.nl this week. Everyone in South Korea is suddenly one or two years younger as of this week. Previously, the country used a different way than we do to calculate ages. But that has changed since this week. 49-year-old Brigitte van der Laan from Spijk in Groningen will run the Nijmegen 4 Days this year with a special aid, Omroep Gelderland reported. And that is special, because in 2012 Van der Laan heard that she had a brain tumor. “I have a motto: I want to get as close as possible to my old self,” she told the broadcaster. Archaeologists have discovered a mural in the Roman ruined city of Pompeii depicting a dish that resembles an Italian pizza. The archaeologists think the pictured meal could be a 2,000-year-old “ancestor” to pizza, wrote BBC News. Get notified when good newsStay up to date with notifications
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