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2011, with a one-off gross payment of €320 relating to the period from May 2010 to March 2011, payable in two
equivalent installments in May and December 2010. A 2.7% salary increase will then be applied from 1 April 2011.
In Poland, company-wide pay negotiations, which did not result in any structural increases in 2009, resulted in average
increases of about PLZ 300 gross per month and, except for a few companies, one-off bonuses averaging around PLZ
1,500 gross, payable in two or more installments and directly linked to achievement of production plans objectives.
However, due to the worsening of market conditions and resulting impact on production, for most Group companies
conditions for payment of all bonus installments were not met.
In Brazil, most Group companies applied collective bargaining agreements in place with the local employers’
associations for each sector (e.g., FIEMG for companies in the Belo Horizonte, Betim, and Contagem areas). Others
have stipulated company-level agreements with similar increases. Overall, increases under these collective
agreements were higher than inflation, reflecting the country’s current economic growth, but were nevertheless in line
with increases applied for the local industrial system as a whole. Variable annual bonuses were also paid on the basis
of company results.
Finally, at the Fiat Automobiles Serbia Doo plant in Kragujevac, a collective labor agreement was reached, with the
union organization represented at the plant, covering both pay and employment conditions for the approximately 1,100
workers at the site.
The level of labor unrest in Italy was higher than for 2009. The most significant labor action taken during the year
consisted of: strikes called by several trade unions at the beginning of the year in protest against the Group’s 2010-
2011 Plan for Italy, presented in December 2009; strikes against the agreement signed on 15 June 2010 for the
relaunch of the G.B. Vico plant in Pomigliano called by FIOM, which did not sign the agreement; and, strikes protesting
against the non-payment of additional performance bonuses for 2009. There were also a few instances of minor labor
action organized locally in relation to shifts, overtime and workloads.
The overall level of labor unrest in countries outside Italy was once again negligible this year. However, general strikes
were called between June and October in France to protest against government pension reforms – with Group
employees also taking part, albeit at significantly different levels for each company – and a general strike was called in
Spain at the end of September against the government budget (which also contained an increase in retirement age and
labor reforms) in which a significant number of employees of Group companies took part.
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