tarifliche Deckungsrate

08:43 Sep 14, 2007
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German to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Human Resources
German term or phrase: tarifliche Deckungsrate
No real context, I'm afraid is this is on it's own in a presentation. The presentation is about Employer/employee/union relations.

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4wage agreement coverage ratio
TonyTK
3percent/part covered by (tariffs, TU agreements ...)
Vito Smolej


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percent/part covered by (tariffs, TU agreements ...)


Explanation:
... was die Gewerkschaften zugesichert haben, nehme ich (oä)

Vito Smolej
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wage agreement coverage ratio


Explanation:
... is slightly unwieldy but does the job.

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/eurpro/budapest/dow...
(search for "coverage ratio" in the text and look at the hits).

It'd probably be more elegant to say "Percentage of employees/companies covered by collective/wage agreements" but you'd have to know whether they were talking about employees or companies.

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or simply "collective/wage agreement coverage".

See
http://www.dti.gov.uk/files/file25737.pdf
and search for "agreement coverage" - lots of examples.


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