After criticizing their inflexibility for a long time, the federation of German employers (BDA) recognized, during its annual congress on November 7 in Berlin, that the collective conventions, setting wages and work conditions of a branch's employees, had gained a lot in flexibility in the last few years. The BDA nonetheless wants to keep modernizing these agreements to guarantee that they will be maintained in the globalization context. (Ref. 061120)
Company negotiations have more and more breathing space. “In the last few years, wage policy contributed, thanks to its evolution – on the whole quite gentle and with a newfound balance between branches’ agreements and the companies’ breathing spaces – to strengthen, in a decisive way, our firms’ competitiveness,” Dieter Hundt, president of the BDA, congratulated himself, during the congress that took place in the presence of the chancellor, Angela Merkel. He added: “I am convinced that we ar
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