On 25 November 2020 the TK Elevator group (TKE group) together with IndustriALL Global union, the German works council, the European Works Council and the German trade union federation IG Metall signed a global framework agreement. TKE group (50,000+ employees worldwide) is the result of a spin-off by the German multi-industrial group Thyssenkrupp in early 2020. In 2015, former owner Thyssenkrupp signed a GFA on labor standards (c.f. article No. 8969) with IG Metall, and this TKE agreement has taken that up and adapted it to include several innovations especially as regards how complaints are treated.
‘Similarly to the previous agreement the ILO core labour standards made the basis of the text of the new agreement’ says the press release from 20 January published on the IndustriAll Global website. In addition to the usual references to core standards, the text contains commitments on working time (i.e. overtime must not be used to compensate for insufficient remuneration, the right to clear information on the main elements of working time, etc.). ). ‘But while designing the new agreement, se
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