Workplace accidents in Hungary dropped 13 per cent in 2011, according to the National Labour Affairs Office. Occupational accidents dropped from 19,948 in 2010 to 17,295 while workplace deaths decreased to 80 in 2011 from 95. Only safety and security-related activities saw a small increase in the number of accidents. Numbers fell in the manufacturing,… Continue »

Radical right-wing party Jobbik, the green-liberal LMP, the organisations tied to them and American businessman Richard Field have all been condemned by a government-backed parliamentary committee set up to investigate the origins and actions of far-right paramilitary groups. The committee’s report – which mainly focuses on the findings about last year’s events in the northern… Continue »

The operator of the capital’s Liszt Ferenc Airport will dismiss only 198 employees instead of the previously planned 250, but if Parliament accepts a land tax proposal by District XVII Mayor Levente Riz then increasing costs may force further layoffs, Budapest Airport says. “The new land tax modification draft voted in Parliament yesterday is putting… Continue »