Luxembourg: an extra day’s holiday for employees in construction and civil engineering sector

After tough negotiations, the OGBL and LCGB trade unions and the employers’ organisations in Luxembourg’s construction and civil engineering sector finally reached an agreement on 20 December. At the unions’ request, a new collective agreement was signed for one year instead of the usual three. “We wanted to be in a position to renegotiate further advances as soon as the market improves,” OGBL central secretary Jean-Luc de Matteis told the newspaper Les Frontaliers. The negotiations took...