General collective agreement
General collective agreement (MTV) is a form of collective agreement . Like every collective agreement, it is negotiated between the collective bargaining partners , i.e. employers' associations and trade unions , and is binding on the members of the contracting parties.
General collective agreements do not contain the specific level of remuneration, which is usually regulated for a relatively short term in a collective wage agreement , and also not the classification of employees in wage or salary groups or levels, which is usually regulated in a framework collective agreement, but rather longer-term, more general regulations, which often also apply to a larger group of people (the “cloak” so to speak of the more specific collective agreements). Typical contents are employment and termination conditions , length of vacation, working time regulations, regulations on illness, sick leave and continued payment of wages , surcharges for overtime , night and shift work , working conditions , capital-forming benefits and provisions on rationalization protection and qualification .
General collective agreements usually have a longer term than wage and salary collective agreements . Occasionally, a term is completely missing. Then they are valid until they are canceled. Different notice periods are often agreed for individual regulations .
The best-known example of a general collective agreement is the Federal Employees' Collective Agreement (BAT), which has now been replaced by the TVöD , also a general collective agreement, for the federal government and municipalities , and by the TV-L for the federal states. However, there are general collective agreements in almost all industries.
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- Example from the private sector: collective wage agreement for employees of IG Metall Baden-Württemberg
