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19 June, 2001IG Metall has concluded a collective agreement on qualification in the metal and electro industries of Baden-Württemberg.
GERMANY: On June 19, 2001, IG Metall finalised negotiations for a collective agreement on qualification and further training in the region of Baden-Württemberg, where a lot of well-known metal companies such as DaimlerChrysler, Bosch, Porsche, ABB, etc. have manufacturing plants.
The agreement provides that every employee is entitled to a regular evaluation meeting with the employer in which the necessity for qualifying measures and further training will be determined. All costs connected with this training will be covered by the company.
It also says that, in cases of personal qualification measures, the employees will have a right to a limited release from work, although they have to pay their own costs for this personal training.
The agreement covers all employees of a plant, and no group of employees will be excluded. Details must be negotiated in the plants.
IG Metall now expects employers' associations in other regions in Germany to start negotiations for similar agreements for their own regions.br> The breakthrough was only possible following warning strikes in a number of plants in which more than 200,000 metalworkers participated and after a 15--hour marathon negotiating round.
For IG Metall this agreement on further training is an important cornerstone for a qualitative collective bargaining policy and a key to securing competitiveness and jobs in the metal and electrical industry of Baden-Württemberg.
The agreement provides that every employee is entitled to a regular evaluation meeting with the employer in which the necessity for qualifying measures and further training will be determined. All costs connected with this training will be covered by the company.
It also says that, in cases of personal qualification measures, the employees will have a right to a limited release from work, although they have to pay their own costs for this personal training.
The agreement covers all employees of a plant, and no group of employees will be excluded. Details must be negotiated in the plants.
IG Metall now expects employers' associations in other regions in Germany to start negotiations for similar agreements for their own regions.br> The breakthrough was only possible following warning strikes in a number of plants in which more than 200,000 metalworkers participated and after a 15--hour marathon negotiating round.
For IG Metall this agreement on further training is an important cornerstone for a qualitative collective bargaining policy and a key to securing competitiveness and jobs in the metal and electrical industry of Baden-Württemberg.