Germany: negotiations for the introduction of a minimum wage in the surveillance sector failed

Following the footsteps of the building sector, industrial cleaning and postal services, the surveillance and safety sector also wanted to get a branch minimum wage. But the negotiations between the services union Ver.di and the management failed at the last minute, on February 19, 2008. (Ref. 080151)
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The German Association of Security Service Providers (BDWS) and the Ver.di union wanted to conclude an agreement for the creation of a minimum wage for the sector’s 170.000 employees. Then, they wanted to ask the Minister for Employment to extend it to all the companies of the sector through the law “on posted workers” (Entsendegesetz). According to an agreement by the Grand Coalition in power, social partners who want to establish a branch minimum wage following this system have until March 31

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