The European Commission invited representatives from a number of EU sectoral social dialogue committees to a meeting on 28 June 2007 to discuss the cross-sectoral agreement on violence at work, adopted earlier this year.
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The three trade union confederations have agreed to extend the framework agreement reached with employers in 2013. A third-year option was possible and this has now been negotiated with a 0.43% pay increase but with a guaranteed minimum increase of €16 a month for workers on salaries below €3720 a month. Read more at > Trade Union News (EN)
(January 2017) Trade unions and employers in the private sector have negotiated a two-year cross-sector agreement which is now up for approval by member organisations. The deal includes scope for a pay increase of 1.1% that would be negotiated at sector level but this would come on top of the 2.9% increase arising from the indexation of pay that continues to be applied at national level. The unions believe they have made some progress with the employers on a range of social issues, including early retirement, in stark contrast to the what they see as the negative approach of the government.
