15 September, 2010
An agreement has been reached at the Labour Ministry of São Paulo, Brazil, state between BASF and the chemical workers of Guaratinguetá. The agreement aims to regulate the use of Contract and Agency Labour (CAL) and requires the company to pay the same salary and benefits to agency workers as is paid to permanent, directly-employed workers. Failure to implement the agreement will result a fine of 500 Reales per worker/per day.
This Guaratinguetá plant is the largest BASF entity in Latin America and has about one non-regular worker for each directly employed worker.