Sentence examples for central agreement from inspiring English sources

'So we began with that central agreement.

Under questioning from Mr. Allen's lawyer, Michael Zweig, Mr. Safra testified that the central agreement for four of Mr. Allen's films was made in a five-minute conversation when the three were at dinner in early 1996.

The latest central agreement for 2013 14 allows wages to rise only as much as the change in the cost-of-living index.

In Belgium there was a marked decline in sectoral agreements concluded under the latest central agreement, presumably because there was nothing left to bargain over.

In the Netherlands the 1982 central agreement spurred the adoption of a mandatory 'opening clause' of all agreements expiring after December 1982 allowing the suspension of price indexation in 1983 (Visser and Hemerijck 1997).

In these countries the central agreement contained a precise figure for minimum (Greece, Romania, Slovenia), standard (Ireland,) or maximum (Belgium) pay rises to be detailed in sectoral and enterprise-level negotiations.

In Belgium and recently in Finland this development has affected issues other than wages, which tend to be specified standard or maximum rates defined through central agreements.

But it changed the outcomes of negotiations at industry and firm levels and was indeed to be followed by a series of further central agreements.

Deliberations of the employers and unions in the Foundation of Labor on labor standards are manifested in the so-called central agreements.

As in Belgium, where the government imposed the biennial central agreements of 2011 and 2013, the government's approach was decisive in reviving (Finland) or ending (Greece, Romania) central-level bargaining.

According to the European Company Survey of 2009, in EU countries with a dominant role for sector or central agreements, just under half of the employees covered by collective agreements fell under sector agreements with some form of additional firm-level bargaining or pay-setting.