Merger in 2011. “It’s time temporary businesses joined forces. Consequently, the managements of our two federations unanimously decided to quickly launch the procedure for the AMP and BZA to merge” announced Volker Enkerts, leader of the BZA, and Peter Mumme, leader of the AMP, on Saturday, October 2, 2010. The details of the merger will be revealed in early 2011. The two organizations’ coming general assemblies will express themselves about the issue. The two federations employ nearly 70% of the 850,000 temporary workers in Germany. The remaining 30% fall within the group of temporary businesses (iGZ), the sector’s third employers’ organization, which isn’t planning on joining the new entity. However, the iGZ said it was open to all sorts of collaborations. For the moment though, it would rather remain independent because of the specificity of its 1,700 members, most of which are present on regional markets. So far, the AMP, which represents over 1,000 interim SMEs, and the BZA, which represents some of the sector’s largest role-players (Adecco and Randstad for instance), didn’t agree on the issue of sectoral minimum wage, and they even signed a separate collective agreement – the BZA with the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) and the AMP with the Confederation of Christian Unions (see our dispatch No. 100216). The two organizations mentioned the possibility of imposing sectoral minimum wage as early as 2011.
the sector’s third employers’ organization, which isn’t planning on joining the new entity. However, the iGZ said it was open to all sorts of collaborations. For the moment though, it would rather remain independent because of the specificity of its 1,700 members, most of which are present on regional markets. So far, the AMP, which represents over 1,000 interim SMEs, and the BZA, which represents some of the sector’s largest role-players (Adecco and Randstad for instance), didn’t agree on
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