The Icelandic Competition Authority (SKE) has imposed daily fines on the Association of Companies in the Catering Industry, SVEIT. This is because SVEIT has refused to provide SKE with data for its investigation into illegal price collusion between companies in the catering industry by concluding a unilateral collective agreement between SVEIT and the pseudo-union Virðing. SKE formally launched its investigation following a complaint from the Efling union, the Icelandic Trade Union Confederation and the Icelandic Confederation of Labour. In the complaint, SKE was informed that Virðing was not a real union but a pseudo-union established by employers in the catering industry with the aim of reducing employees' wages and reducing their rights. As a result, the collective agreement between these parties could not be considered real, but rather an unlawful collusion between competitors in the market.
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