Italy: Pay deal reached for telecommunications and ICT sectors
After nine months of difficult negotiations, employers and trade unions signed a new collective agreement on 23 October 2009 for more than 160,000 employees in the telecommunications and ICT sectors.
The accord was signed by the three main unions in the sectors - Slc-Cgil, Fistel-Cisl and Uilcom-Uil - and the Asstel employers' organisation.