Following some quick-fire negotiations, Italian employer organisations Federchimica and Farmindustria reached an agreement with trade unions Filctem-Cgil, Femca-Cisl, Uiltec, Ugl Chimici, Failc-Confail and Fialc-Cisal on a renewal of the national collective agreement (CCN) for the chemicals and pharmaceuticals industry, which expires at the end of the year. Agreed on 19 July, the new CCN will be valid from 1 January 2019 until 30 June 2022, represents a first test of the collective bargaining reform approved at the end of February by Confindustria, Cgil, Cisl and Uil (see article n°10581). The agreement for the chemical and pharmaceuticals industry includes not only a 97-euro increase of minimum wages but new innovative measures, such as adjusting to inflation, work-life balance and guiding company-level negotiations. It will be applicable to 176,000 workers, who are due to give their view on the text.
Pay rises. As under the agreement of 28 February, reached by Confindustria, Cgil, Cisl and Uil, the new collective agreement provides for pay rises at two levels. Minimum wages, labelled in the February agreement as the trattamento economico minimo (TEM), will be increased by 97 euros in four stages: by 30 euros in January 2019, 27 euros in January 2020, 24 euros in July 2021, and 16 euros in June 2022. Meanwhile the so-called trattamento economic complessivo, which comprises the TEM plus...
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