Purchasing power. The future agreement, valid between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2012, provides for a €0.50 increase in meal tickets on April 1, 2012. The 2011-2012 cross-industry agreement (AIP) severely limits the social partners’ room for maneuver in terms of wage increase (see our dispatch No. 110122). When the negotiations started, employers wanted to transpose the 0.3% wage increase margin provided for in the AIP with a €0.3 increase in meal tickets. Unions wanted 0.6. The draft agreement also provides that the sector is going to get in line with the 2009 collective agreement on the participation of employers to workers’ travel expenses. It extends coverage to 75% of expenses maximum.
ns started, employers wanted to transpose the 0.3% wage increase margin provided for in the AIP with a €0.3 increase in meal tickets. Unions wanted 0.6. The draft agreement also provides that the sector is going to get in line with the 2009 collective agreement on the participation of employers to workers’ travel expenses. It extends coverage to 75% of expenses maximum.
Seniors. Even though employers want early retirement scrapped, they accepted to extend the existing agreements. In Belgium
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