The parliament voted on 31 January 31 for a limitation of the wage index. Tripartite negotiations came to a halt in December 2011. Trade unions did not accept proposals put forward by the employers on the introduction of a 2-year moratorium, a modulation of wage indexation, a study to analyse the legitimacy of wage setting suspension and a revision of the minimum wage. The government then stipulated a temporary modulation of wage indexation for 2012-2015. For this period, salaries to be indexed in accordance to inflation are augmented only once a year. An interval of 12 months is to be respected between each index payment. The payment due initially in March 2012 (as inflation is still high) is postponed to October 2012 while a next forecasted index payment, if applicable, is postponed to October 2013 at the earliest. Social minimum salary is not frozen as demanded by employer’ associations, but will continue to rise with a next augmentation on 1 January 2013.
French: http://www.ogbl.lu/blog/opposition-contre-la-regression/
German: http://www.ogbl.lu/de/blog/opposition-contre-la-regression/
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