After mediated negotiations, trade unions and the employers’ confederation have reached an agreement to raise the minimum wage to €430 in 2016 and €470 in 2017. As reported in last month’s newsletter, social partners failed to reach an agreement and a public conciliator proposed to raise the minimum wage to €440 by 2016 and €460 the year after. Employers rejected the offer, but have now accepted a slight smaller increase in 2016, compensated by a higher increase in 2017.
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For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.