Belgium: report on the evolution of wage gaps with neighboring countries

The Central Economic Council – an organization where staff and union representatives sit – published a report on the evolution of wage costs, employment and training efforts. This annual report, which compares the Belgian situation with three neighboring countries (France, Germany and the Netherlands) for these three areas, serves as a reference for wage negotiations. (Ref. 070915)
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The Central Economic Council (CCE) considers that “conventional wages should increase in Belgium, in the private sector, during the 2007-2008 period, of about 4.2% n average, as opposed to 4.7% in 2005-2006. Let us remind that social partners at the interprofessional level had agreed on an indicative 5% standard wage evolution for that period. “The indicative wage standard was mostly used during sectoral negotiations” the document points out.

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