FRANCE AND BELGIUM WELCOME DEAL OVER LOW GERMAN MEAT SECTOR WAGES
January 1st, 2014
THE FRENCH government has welcomed an agreement between the German Food and Allied Workers Union (NGG) and the employers group ANG to introduce a minimum wage structure for the approximately 80,000 employees of the German meat industry.French farm minister Stephane le Foll said that following the deal the expected the Germany good industry to return to “more balanced competition with its European partners.”Belgium has also complained formally to the European Commission that Germany was engaging in “unfair competition” by employing workers recruited ...
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