Italy: insurance sector national collective agreement renewed

On 22 February and more than three years after the previous collective agreement reached its term, social partners in the insurance sector came to a draft agreement for renewing the national collective agreement (NCA) that will impact 48,000 employees and will apply until 31 December 2019. The agreement, now in workers’ consultation phase, intends for a record €103 wage rise, in terms of recent agreement renewals, as well as innovative approaches to working hours flexibility, and it also contains a whole new section on call center workers.
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Following twenty months of negotiations, the employers organization Ania together with the First-Cisl, Fisac-Cgil, Uilca-Uil, FNA, and Snfia unions came to an agreement that contains the most significant economic element of any recently concluded NCAs. Unlike in other agreements, on top of a near 5% pay rise, (€103 on average) the sector’s workers will receive retroactive ‘catch-up’ pay. For the period between 01 July 2013 and 31 December 2014 workers will receive €400 gross and be paid by 30 M

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