Employers’ organisation Confindustria and the three major trade union confederations, Cgil, Cisl and Uil have reached an agreement on representation and representativeness for national industry-wide agreements. The parties agreed on a protocol which outlines the number of representatives of each union and employer organisation in collective negotiations as well as the procedure to validate the agreements. The protocol is hoped to improve relations between the social partners, as also between different unions, who have increasingly taken up practices of signing separate agreement with employers.
English: http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/2013/06/articles/it ...
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