Belgium: start of the negotiations for the new collective agreement in electricity and gas

Harmonizing statuses.  While energy prices keep increasing, employers plead a wage increase contained in the 2011-2012 cross-industry agreement, i.e. 0.3% maximum (see our dispatch No.  110122).  For their part, unions mostly focus on the upward harmonization of the status of workers recruited before and after 2002, when the liberalization of the sector began in Belgium.
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Harmonizing statuses. While energy prices keep increasing, employers plead a wage increase contained in the 2011-2012 cross-industry agreement, i.e. 0.3% maximum (see our dispatch No. 110122). For their part, unions mostly focus on the upward harmonization of the status of workers recruited before and after 2002, when the liberalization of the sector began in Belgium.

The status of white-collar workers, more advantageous than the status of blue-collar workers, was f

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