On Monday 30 November, social partners from the private post sector, the employers’ federation KEP & Mail and two postal sector trade unions Syndicom and Transfair, announced that they have signed the sector’s first ever collective agreement (CCT). The social partners decided to inform their members first and foremost, before making details of the agreement known to the public. This agreement has certainly not been reached by chance. It has been sought, firstly, to draw up a framework to prevent social dumping. Furthermore, the postal service’s regulatory body, Post Com, will soon have to adjudicate as regards the minimum working conditions in the sector. Finally, the Swiss Federal Council will adopt a position on whether this new agreement can apply to the whole sector.
It has taken three years for social partners from Switzerland’s private postal sector — the employers’ federation KEP & Mail (DHL, DPD, FedEx and TNT) and the postal sector trade unions Syndicom and Transfair — to reach an agreement on the contents of their CCT, the first one to be signed in the sector’s history. With discussions having slowed for a long time, the possibility of a total liberalisation of the Swiss postal market seems to have sped up negotiations, which concluded at the end of N
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