Italy: social partners from the food industry renewed the national branch collective agreement

After three months' negotiations, employers' organizations affiliated with the national food federation, Federalimentare, and the trade union organizations Flai-Cgil, Flai-Cisl and Uila-Uil signed, on July 21, an agreement which renews the national collective agreement which came to an end on May 31, 2007. In addition to wage measures, the new agreement includes provisions in favour of equality between men and women, of the improvement of health and security at work, and of the fight against precariousness. In the coming weeks, unions will consult workers about the agreement. (Ref. 070678)
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This agreement, which covers 400.000 employees, is effective until May 31, 2011 for the prescriptive part, and until May 31, 2009 for the economic part. “It really is a good contract, especially since we got it without any cheap counterpart or compromise,” declared the Flai-Cgil’s secretary general, Franco Chiriaco, who sees in it “the proof that contracts can be renewed while remaining coherent with the decisions made by the Cgil’s National Congress, without granting derogations in terms of ho

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