Following 10 months of negotiations and a 16-hour strike, social partners from the textile, clothing and fashion sector managed to reach a draft agreement on the renewal of their collective agreement. Struck on 21 February, the draft deal will ultimately apply to 420,000 employees from around 40,000 companies, and will apply from 1 April 2016 until 31 December 2019. Though still subject to a consultation with employees, the deal includes an estimated 90-euro monthly wage increase, which compares to the initial union demand of 100 euros.
The employer organisation Sistema Moda Italia (SMI)-Confindustria and the Filctem-Cgil, Femca-Cisl and Uiltec-Uil trade unions reached a deal on how salary increases will be calculated, which was the main sticking point during talks. SMI was hopeful of using a model that has been adopted in the metal industry, whereby wage raises are calculated a posteriori, on the basis of the real increase in the rate of inflation over three years. However, the trade unions were insisting that the wage raises
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