Metal manufacturing. The new collective agreement of CP No. 111 (see our dispatch No. 110336), the social dialogue structure which, in Belgium, gathers sectors as varied as aeronautics, the auto industry or even metal manufacturing, has been signed. The text will govern the working conditions of the sector’s approximately 150,000 employees in 2011 and 2012. it provides for the maintenance of indexation of wages on inflation, a 0.3% increase in line with the pay range included in the government’s act (see our dispatch No. 110040) and a €250 eco-check. Unions also successfully renewed early retirement agreements and extended the duration of blue-collar workers’ layoff notice.
ded in the government’s act (see our dispatch No. 110040) and a €250 eco-check. Unions also successfully renewed early retirement agreements and extended the duration of blue-collar workers’ layoff notice.
Iron and steel. In the steel industry (CP No. 104), employers from the Iron and Steel Group (GSV) and the ACV-CSC Metea, CGSLB and MWB-FGTB unions reached, on June 6th, a memorandum of understanding. After weeks of tension because of disagreements on early retirement, subcontracting, layo
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