Since 16 June, Portugal’s major retailers has a new collective agreement where workers will enjoy a 2% wage rise as well as arrangements to be implemented that will allow for equivalences between the various employment statuses of the different sector’s different professions. After a year of tough negotiations, union demands have finally been satisfied. Portugal’s retailing business body, APED welcomed the sense of ‘union responsibility in terms of coming to a constructive solution.’
A new collective agreement. The retail sector’s new labor agreement (CTT in Portuguese) was under negotiation for more than a year. The sector had been governed by a 2010 collective agreement.
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