The fashion and textile industry is the sector where wages are the lowest in manufacturing. This is way the agreement signed on April 2, 2013 after other manufacturing agreements signed by TEKO (Sverige Textil och Modeföretag) and its social partners (Unionen/private sector, If Metall/metalworkers, and Sveriges ingenjörer/Swedish engineers) provides for a 6.8 percent wage increase over 3 years applying the calculation rules given by the LO confederation, which are advantageous for low wages. In return, businesses will get more advantageous conditions in terms of working organization. (Ref. 130376)
Business-friendly conditions. The agreement, which will run between April 1, 2013 and March 31, 2016, provides for:
- The possibility of bargaining locally for the criteria for dividing “the global wage increase.”
- More flexibility to extend regular working time, allowing local agreements to adjust the organization of labor to the company’s needs while taking account of employees’ individual requests.
- Simpler, more advantageous overtime. Instead of limiting overtime to 50 hours a month,...
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