Representatives of the employers’ organisation ABBL (Luxembourg Bankers' Association) and the trade unions OGBL, LCGB and Aleba started negotiations at the end of December for a new collective working agreement, with 20,000 employees waiting for the new contract. The unions came back with largely negative feedback from the talks.
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