Luxembourg: a new collective agreement for the building trade

After a long negotiation, a new collective agreement regulating the work and wage conditions of about 13 000 employees of the building trade was signed on August 30th. (Ref 06861)
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The collective agreement, concluded after the intervention of an ombudsman, was signed by trade unions OGBL and LCGB and by the Grouping of entrepreneurs of the building trade and civil engineering as well as the Luxembourg Firms of building and civil engineering federation. The agreement is applicable for three years (until August 31st, 2009) and provides for three 0.10-euro increases per hour : the first one now, the second on January 1st, 2007 and the third on January 1st, 2008. 100-euro bon

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