An agreement appears to have been found after the issue was first handed to a conciliator and then a mediator.
Representatives of BCEE staff deplore that many BCEE employees do not receive the promotions that they are legally entitled to. The issue has already resulted in a protest picket line back in November. The government, the sole stake holder of the bank, and the board of the BCEE Spuerkees bank were not ready to compromise. But things changed on Wednesday evening.
Confédération Générale de la Fonction Publique (CGFP) requested that BCEE agreements have to be respected, which means the integral application of the 2015 reforms, the end of arbitrary promotion decisions and the end of savings made at the staff's expense.
An agreement on these points was found with the board of directors of the bank and the government, which was represented by ministers Gramegna and Hansen when the negotiated agreement was presented.
In a press release published last year, CGFP vehemently criticised the behaviour of the government and even accused them of arrogance.
There had even been talk of a strike. But all of that is now history: the promotion system will be adapted.
