Starting from 2008, the Hesse Land, led by conservatives, will only place public orders to companies which respect the wages set by secoral collective agreements in the building, industrial cleaning, guarding, demolition and horticulture sectors - provides a bill presented on September 3, 2007 by the regional government and the Land's German trade union confederation DGB. The law should come into effect on January 1, 2008. (Ref. 070736)
According to the Hesse’s Minister of Social Affairs, Silke Lautenschläger (CDU), the bill aims at fighting against social dumping and at strengthening sectoral trade unionism. It will apply to public orders of an amount higher than 50.000 euros attributed by the Land as well as by local authorities. It plans a penalties system. Companies which cannot prove that they respect the disposals or which deliberately provide erroneous data will be excluded for three years from public procurements, and
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