Union signs important agreement with private care provider

Denmark

The FOA public services union has just signed a collective agreement with Bruger-Hjælper Formidlingen, the largest private care company in Denmark with 3200 employees. The union sees this as a milestone in the fight to avoid social dumping in welfare areas while the company believes the agreement will help it to bee seen as an attractive employer with proper wage and employment conditions and that provides high quality services. The agreement runs until 2017 and will be renegotiated in the winter of 2016-17.
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