IG Metall letter to heads of federal states on enforcing new regulations for agency workers
In an open letter to the prime ministers of the different federal states in Germany IG Metall supports efforts to enforce new regulations for agency workers. IG Metall President Berhold Huber and Vice President Detlef Wetzel call on the head of the federal states to "assume responsibility for the fairness on the labour market".
The letter was written to support a petition of the federal states Bremen and Rhineland-Palatinate to change the German Law on Temporary Work. Currently the number of agancy workers in Germany increases after it reached its low in May 2009.
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For more secure employment, against precarious work
The EMF Collective Bargaining Policy Conference 2009 launched the 2nd Common Demand:
“For more secure employment, against precarious work”,
which will be included in the collective bargaining demands of all its 75 affiliated trade unions and in future collective bargaining rounds throughout Europe over the next four years.
