Frankfurt am Main – Collective bargaining agreement achieved for temporary workers: IG Metall and the employers’ associations for temporary work agreed at the last minute on Friday to pay out an inflation compensation premium. Accordingly, temporary employees in the metal and electrical industry receive a total of 2300 euros tax and duty-free. Improvements to the industry surcharges were also agreed.
“Colleagues in temporary work will soon have significantly more money in their wallets. They deserve it – and given the rise in prices, it is also urgently needed,” says Juan-Carlos Rio Antas, chief negotiator for IG Metall. “In the past few weeks, thousands of temporary workers have taken to the streets to protest their demands. At the same time, the colleagues in the hiring companies have campaigned against the employers in the metal and electrical industry for the concerns of the temporary employees. The joint pressure from permanent staff and temporary workers made this result possible.”
The inflation compensation premium is up to EUR 2,300 and will be paid out in monthly installments from January 2024: EUR 300 in January 2024, EUR 200 each from February to November 2024. The money is paid to anyone who works for their leasing company for at least five months and spends at least one month in a company in the metal and electrical industry.
There is also an innovation in the industry surcharges that are due for assignments in the metal and electrical industry: from September 1, 2023, the first level (plus 15 percent on the basic wage) will take effect from the first day of assignment. So far, this surcharge was only given after six weeks.
After IG Metall had achieved an inflation compensation premium for permanent employees in the metal and electrical industry at the end of 2022, it also demanded payment for temporary workers in the industry. But the negotiations turned out to be difficult and dragged on for more than half a year. Only after the board of directors had declared the collective bargaining failed at the beginning of this week did things start to move. The new collective agreement runs until the end of 2024.