On January 9, METALL NRW, the federation of metal employers in North Rhine-Westphalia, the IG-Metall’s federation in North Rhine-Westphalia and Atos Deutschland announced that they had adopted, for the first time, a sectoral collective agreement valid at national level in the telecom and computing industry. For the moment, Atos is the only company to have signed this collective agreement – which is open to all other businesses in the sector. This framework collective agreement offers businesses – via ‘differentiation clauses’ – great flexibility in terms of working time and pay. Unanimously described as a “pioneer agreement” by the different parties, it allows the IG-Metall to take its first step in a growing sector.
Looking for joint solutions, specific to the sector. Wolfgang Nettelstroth, spokesperson for the IG-Metall’s federation in North Rhine-Westphalia, told Planet Labor that the talks were initiated by the management of Atos Deutschland, the German subsidiary of Atos SE – one of the European leaders in computing services – and by the IG-Metall. According to him, the company, which today employs 8,500 people in Essen and Munich, took over several businesses in recent years and then faced a...
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