Germany: chemistry social partners in eastern Germany work on groundbreaking system for flexible working time

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in talks on the working conditions of the 36,000 people working in the eastern-German chemical industry, the IG BCE union announced, on September 1st, that it sent employers a proposal for a ‘groundbreaking’ flexiwork system. This system provides for the creation of a fund, in each company, to pay for the working time reductions of employees going through a “special” phase of life. The details of this concept will be worked out by a committee made up of union and employers’ representatives by

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