Plastics workers in Germany's Hessen state to get 2.7% wage hike

31 August 2010 17:49  [Source: ICIS news]

TORONTO (ICIS)--Some 6,000 plastics industry workers in Germany’s central Hessen state will get a 2.7% wage increase, effective 1 January 2011, a union and an employers group said on Tuesday.

Workers would also receive a one-time payment of €200 ($253), said union IG BCE and employers group HessenChemie.

The 17-month collective agreement covered 39 mostly medium-sized plastics producers, they said.

HessenChemie said the deal, which was reached in the first round of negotiations, was a “tolerable compromise” that would not jeopardise the industry’s recovery from last year’s deep crisis.

Employers and the union also committed to increasing the number of apprenticeships by 3% per year from 2011 through 2013, they said.

In April, chemical employers and IG BCE agreed an 11-month deal under which chemical industry wages remained frozen while workers received a one-time payment of up to €715.

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