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Human
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Collective bargaining
In Italy, the definitive version of the CCSL was signed on 13 December 2011, representing the first application
of Article 8 of Law 148/2011 referred to above.
The CCSL largely reflects the content of the agreement signed on 29 December 2010, with modifications to
certain key provisions in addition to incorporating the elements necessary for application at all Fiat Group and
Fiat Industrial Group companies. Pursuant to a Group-level agreement signed on the same date, the CCSL took
effect at all Group companies from 1 January 2012.
The agreement, which was ratified by a majority of employee representatives, provides: a uniform set of
conditions for all Group companies, with pay conditions simplified in terms of structure; a more flexible system of
shifts and working hours, enabling greater ability to respond to changes in production requirements; a system of
employee representation involving only those unions that signed the new agreement; and an explicit undertaking
of responsibility from unions that are signatories to the agreement to adhere to the stipulated commitments
contained therein.
Withdrawal from the Confindustria system was completed on December 23rd with signature of a collective
agreement for managers of Fiat and Fiat Industrial.
With regard to pay conditions, increases provided in the CCNL for metalworking sector employees (non-
management) – which covers approximately 97% of Group employees in Italy – were applied and adjustments
to base pay established under the national collective labor agreement for managers of industrial companies,
renewed in November 2009, were also implemented.
This is the last year that these two agreements will impact the Group’s workers as they were replaced by the
agreements signed by Fiat and the respective trade unions on 13 and 23 December 2011.
Outside Italy, company-level agreements established during 2011 included the annual negotiation in France,
which resulted in salary increases of approximately 1.5%, in line with inflation, and in Germany pay increases of
2.7% established in 2010 with regard to 2011 were applied from April 2011.