France: metallurgy sector social partners undertake to sign a new single national collective agreement

While to date the metallurgy sector has been operating under 78 separate collective agreements, on 07 February 2022 the employers' federation UIMM and three representative trade unions, CFDT, FO, and CFE-CGC, with the CGT union being a notable exception, will come together and sign a new single national sector agreement. After an almost 6-year period of negotiations that concluded at the end of December 2021, a single national text has been written down and will come into force in 2024. This collective agreement, which will concern 1.5 million employees, should in particular enable the streamlining of job role classifications and the introduction of a minimum social protection scheme.


By . Published on 03 February 2022 à 15h09 - Update on 03 February 2022 à 15h12

Revolutionary. The metallurgy sector will now transition from a corpus of 78 collective agreements (and 7,000 texts at national level, c.f. article No.12831(FR)) to just a single text, which may subsequently be supplemented at local level. With the metallurgy employers body, the UIMM, driving the process, all the trade union organisations came to the table in September 2016 to agree on a text, the goals of which are ‘simplification’, ‘competitiveness’ and it being a ‘social project,’ the UIMM director general, Hubert Mongon, outlined to the AJIS (Association des journalistes de l’information sociale) in November 2021.…

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