Iceland -Wage agreement extended -January 22, 2013

An extension of the collective wage agreements from May 2011 was signed at the headquarters of the Confederation of Labour (ASÍ), guaranteeing wage earners on the labour market a 3.25% pay increase in salaries as of February 1. The agreements will be valid until the end of November 2013, cutting the validation period by two months. Preparations for the next collective bargaining have already begun.

English: http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/Extension ...  

 

For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.