Officially, the steel pact required Germany and Italy to help the other country militarily, economically or otherwise in the event of war and to participate in war production. [7] The pact was intended to ensure that neither country was able to make peace without the agreement of the other. [8] The agreement was based on the assumption that a war would not take place within three years. [8] When Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939 and war broke out on 3 September, Italy was not yet prepared for conflict and was struggling to meet its obligations. [9] Therefore, it was not until June 1940, with a delayed invasion of southern France, that Italy entered World War II. [10] IG Metall`s agreements in the pilot region of Baden-Wuerttemberg, an industrial and automotive hub under Daimler and Bosch, have traditionally served as a model for agreements throughout the country. [5] The collective agreement provides that companies that are forced to deviate from these options will deviate. When a company is experiencing serious economic difficulties to the extent that its level of employment is affected, it is not required to comply with these clauses for apprentices. The same applies when there are personal reasons for the continued employment of an apprentice. In the first case, the Works Council must approve the delay, in the second case, only management must give its consent.
In the German metallurgical and electricity industry, a wage agreement was reached in the early hours of Tuesday. In addition to the pilot contract for the metallurgical and electrical industry in south-west Germany, employers and IG Metall have also negotiated a collective branch agreement for temporary workers throughout the German electrical and metallurgical industry. The collective agreement was highly contested. In recent weeks, the IG Metall union has launched a series of warning strikes to consider its initial request for a 6% wage increase. The new agreement will enter into force on 1 November 2012 and expire in 2017. It must also serve as a pilot agreement for other sectors. For example, in June 2012, VGZ and the Mining, Chemicals and Energy Industry Union (IG BCE) reached a similar agreement for temporary workers in chemical companies. The chemical agreement has the same duration as that of the metallurgical industry and the supplements will also be paid in five stages. But the scale ranges from 15 to 50% for salary levels 1 and 2, and from 10 to 35% for salary brackets 3 to 5.
The recent agreement allows unrestricted secondment of temporary workers in each company for 18 months. At the end of this period, the company will have to consider whether the temporary worker concerned can obtain an indeterminate employment contract. While the use of temporary workers may be limited by an enterprise contract, for example, other compensation flexibility measures may be introduced, such as extending the weekly working hours to 40 hours for a smaller proportion of workers.
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