Court victory for unions over contractor

Netherlands

Unions have won a victory in court to ensure that a Polish contracting company working on a power station pays its workers in line with the relevant collective agreement. The company, Remak, is working on the construction of a new coal fired power stations in the port Eemshaven and is working on contract for the German company RWE. Remak was paying 9 euros an hour, instead of 11.50 but will now have to pay the higher rate and should respect the working time reduction, holiday and night work bonuses. Remak was also one of a number of contractors on power station sites in the UK who were exposed as paying below the nationally agreed rate. The various unions on the Eemshaven site have formed a coordinating body which is also reaching out to the 70% of the workers on the site who are not Dutch.
Read more at > BNR news website (NL)
And on the UK case > Process engineering news website (EN)

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