Spain: agreement between the social partners to unfreeze the reform of collective bargaining

According to the document signed on the night of the 26th, the new system will help “rationalize and better articulate collective agreements” and encourage negotiations at company level. The agreement will determine the structure of negotiations in each individual sector and remove some existing bargaining levels.  Unions and employers now have until March 19th to come up with the reform of the interconfederal framework of collective bargaining.
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According to the document signed on the night of the 26th, the new system will help “rationalize and better articulate collective agreements” and encourage negotiations at company level. The agreement will determine the structure of negotiations in each individual sector and remove some existing bargaining levels. Unions and employers now have until March 19th to come up with the reform of the interconfederal framework of collective bargaining.

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