Cologne / Frankfurt (dpa) – Around 3.8 million employees of the German metal and electrical industry can expect significant real wage increases until the end of next year.
Employers and IG Metall have agreed on a pilot agreement for the tariff area North Rhine-Westphalia, which is to be transferred to other regions.
The final sees more money in two steps and a lump-sum payment. The contract initially retroactive from April 1 includes a one-time payment of 150 euros for the three months to June zero. After attacks on July 1, the first stage of 2.8 percent. The second stage of 2.0 percent applies then from 1 April 2017 until the end of the year. With currently almost non-existent inflation increasing proposes unabated through the purse of employees.
IG Metall and employers also agreed in the night on Friday in Cologne on exclusion rules for economically weaker companies such mitt rushed both sides. but It should then not negotiate as far works and companies, but trade union and employers’ organization on site and obtain a result within one month. The collective agreement has a term of 21 months by the end of 2017.
be transferred to the remaining tariff zones
is the conclusion of North Rhine-Westphalia. With the agreement now reached an escalation of the labor dispute was averted after Pentecost. IG Metall had already announced days ago an expansion of the labor dispute in the coming week, including the new day strike, should there be no approach in the negotiations in Cologne.
The two sides reviewed the results positively. “This is a conclusion of a pilot nature. The workers get a substantial increase in real incomes and thus a fair share in the economic success,” said the first chairman of IG Metall, Joerg Hofmann.
The NRW-employer president and negotiator Arndt Kirchhoff emphasized the special rules for weaker businesses. The conclusion was a “door opener for a re-entry into the innovative tariff policy.”
The conclusion is a solid triad of acceptable wage increase operational flexibility and long duration, declared total metal boss Rainer Dulger. So you’ve reached that the burden on businesses is significantly lower than previous years, that the duration is much longer, and that is the company the opportunity to differentiate parts of the financial statements.
Originally, the IG Metall had demanded 5 percent more money within a one-year term. Employers offered initially for 24 Months rate increases in two stages, which add up to 2.1 percent, giving plus a one-time allowance of 0.3 percent. In addition, employers have proposed special rules for economically weak businesses.
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