On February 15, the Prime Minister, Berie Ahern, gathered social partners for a first plenary session which marked the beginning of the negotiations to evaluate the pact "Towards 2016" (see our dispatch No. 080120). The Prime Minister tried to reassure unions by announcing a coming law on temporary work agencies. Nonetheless, the fact that social partners disagree on the wage issue might disturb the debates on the pact's evolution. (Ref. 080143)
During this meeting, the Prime Minister officially invited social partners to be involved in the evaluation of “Towards 2016” and to prepare their own analysis of the progress made in the enforcement of the measures contained in that pact. The analyses will be handed out to the government in mid-March and negotiations will start shortly after. As an answer to unions’ recent accusations which stated that he was not acting fast enough (see our dispatch No. 080120), the Prime Minister said he was
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