On 15 October 2015, after just 24 hours of negotiations and more than two months before the expiration date of the current contract, scheduled for 15 December, the hypothesis was signed for renewal of the national collective contract for 2016-2018 for employees of the chemical-pharmaceutical sector. The agreement on one hand confirms the central nature of the national collective employment contract and on the other promotes company bargaining, with the stated purpose of optimizing integration between the two contractual levels. With the new text the social parties have recognized an overall average raise of 90 euro, which will be paid in three installments starting from the month of January 2017, not before having paid the last portion, totaling 15 euro, included in the previous renewal. The main new feature regards the commitment of the Parties to annually perform an ex post analysis of changes in inflation between the forecasts used in the renewal phase and the actual change of consumer prices. Lastly, in terms of legislation, in order to simplify and implementation in line with the current Government’s policy, contractual requirements were clarified where necessary in order to avoid disputes as much as possible over their interpretation and/or application, and laws not longer considered current were eliminated.
