The bargaining season has started and the social partners are negotiating in several sectors. The trade unions and the employers in the banking and insurance sectors reached an agreement on a 1.78% pay increase for the 50,000 employees in the finance sector. The electro and electronics industry bargaining partners agreed to a 2% wage rise for the 50,000 employees in the sector. In the ceramic and stone industries a pay increase of 2%, with a minimum of 40 euro, was agreed, starting 1 May 2015. The agreement includes a further wage increase in 2016 (with 0.35% plus inflation index). Most unions are also pushing forward the free time option, a provision that was introduced in the collective agreements of 2013. This provision allows employees to receive their raise in time rather than money.
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