The Bavarian section of the IG Metall union and the car manufacturer BMW signed, on December 3, 2007, an agreement which grants temp workers the pay negotiated for the branch, and that from the first day at work. This agreement is the second of this type after that signed by Audi at the end of August. For the IG Metall, which decided during its last congress to massively commit in favour of equal treatment between temporary and permanent workers, the agreement signed with a renowned large business is an important step. (Ref. 071005)
“We don’t accept that there are 1st and 2nd class employees within companies, or that the permanent staff is little by little replaced by temp workers. In this area, the golden rule must be : equal pay for equal work”, declared Detlef Wentzel, IG Metall’s number 2, at the beginning of the week in front of an assembly of staff representatives from southern Germany. Whereas the number of temp workers working in the company exceeded 800.000 in 2007 and keeps on increasing fast, unions and employer
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