Gender pay gap: women earn fewer bonuses than men | How Sample Agreements can improve negotiations

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Gender pay gap not limited to wages: women earn fewer allowances and bonuses than men do

WageIndicator's Sample Collective Agreement: solution for slow negotiation process?

Recently, WageIndicator hosted a Summer School in Amsterdam, where representatives of both trade unions and employers of six African countries worked together. They used the research tools provided by the Wageindicator Collective Agreements Database to create - almost automatically - what they considered to be the best possible models of Collective Bargaining Agreements for their own countries. These Sample Collective Agreements could be the solution for the slow and complex negotiation process.

Learn more about the WageIndicator Collective Agreements Database

Best Sample Collective Agreements

Best Collective Agreements worldwide

New Times Corporation, Ghana (longest holidays: 36 working days per year)
UFEA and UHAWU , Uganda (best for a discrimination-free workplace)

Living wage: step-by-step process for garment workers in Indonesia

Increased minimum wage rates from July 2016

New countries with Wage-Indicator Collective Agreements Database

Labour law changes around the world

Benin: Children's Code
El Salvador: Paternity and Maternity Leave
Tanzania: Annual Leave
France: Overarching Labour Law Reforms

The country of France has adopted a huge labour law reform in July 2016. The new Labour Code sets a higher level of daily and weekly working hours, allows the company agreements to take precedence over the sectoral agreements, and even lets a company level agreement set a lower rate of overtime in the absence of a collective agreement.

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