Collective agreement signed in Philips
After the agreement on pensions there is also a new general Philips CLA. Most important issues are as follows.
Duration: 1/5/2003 till 31/12/2004
Income: Increase of 1.25% on 1/4/2004 (despite our Social Agreement; this agreement had to be renewed from 1/5/203 and there for does not fall within the range of the Social Agreement); And a one time benefit of 2% for September 2004 depending company results.
Performance pay: Only if a employee doesn’t perform acceptable, he/she will not get any increase of salary.
Employability: The right for individual personal development will be put into the CLA.
Working time: Employees are allowed to work 4x9 hours a week if it doesnt hurt the interests of the company.
Campaign
EMF Launches 2nd Common Demand of the European metalworkers’ unions
“For more secure employment, against precarious work”
which will be included in the collective bargaining demands of all its 75 affiliated trade unions and in future collective bargaining rounds throughout Europe over the next four years.
