The negotiations between employers’ representatives and the private sector workers’ union federation (GSEE) led, on Wednesday, March 26, to the new national collective labor agreement (EGSEE), in force between January 1 and December 31, 2014. It maintains the key terms of the previous agreement, notably the wedding allowance, the 13th and 14th months of pay, and the 3-yearly seniority increases (though these are currently frozen, until unemployment goes back under the 10 percent bar). At the same time, parental leave for men is introduced.
The social partners only needed two meetings to agree on the terms of the new national collective labor agreement. This comes from the fact that they are not the ones who determine minimum wage (see article No. 130349) and that, given the context, the talks are almost only used to renew existing terms (see article No. 100575 on the previous agreement signed in May 2013 that already referred to previous terms). However, they warned that, if the decree on minimum wage were canceled in 2014, d
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