“A collective labor agreement contains the most important agreements between employers and employees and is often the result of lengthy negotiations. Advising on collective agreements is a specialism”
In a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) the collective terms and conditions of employment of employees are regulated within a certain industry or company. A collective bargaining agreement is concluded between one or more employers or employers’ organizations and one or more trade unions.
Special statutory rules apply to collective bargaining agreements. For example, when making agreements with individual employees, it is in principle not allowed to deviate from the employment conditions laid down in the collective bargaining agreement to the detriment of the employee. However, the employer must be bound by the relevant collective bargaining agreement. This is the case, for example, if the collective agreement has been declared universally binding and the employer falls within the scope of the collective agreement.
Alwin Stege is the specialist in the field of collective bargaining agreements. He obtained his PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the field of collective bargaining law and has broad practical experience.
Collective bargaining agreements in practice
Can an employer unilaterally decide to transfer the pensions of the staff to another pension provider? Can we ensure that our staff is no longer covered by two different collective bargaining agreements? And how exactly should this collective bargaining agreement be interpreted?
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