Under discussion for a year, the nationwide metals sector employment agreement was finalized on 23 September. To date, four of the five sector’s union organizations have stated they will sign the much awaited text that was negotiated with the one of the metal sector’s major employer’s body the UIMM (Union des industries et des métiers de la métallurgie), which caters to 42,000 businesses and 1.5 million employees.
The main provision in the twenty-one-page text is the piloting of working time...