A new report from the EIRO industrial relations observatory examines the spread of wage flexibility across Europe with a short section looking at variable pay systems in the public services. Overall the report finds that decentralisation has occurred within multi-employer bargaining systems, involving greater scope for the negotiation or determination of an element of wages at company level. It also notes that the increasing use of variable pay systems is reported across most of the countries under consideration.
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