Agreement on merger King Willem 1 and De Leijgraaf
The Brabant MBO institutions Koning Willem 1 College and De Leijgraaf will continue together. The administrative merger has been a fact since 1 January this year and recently the negotiator's agreement was also finalized on the equalization of secondary employment conditions and the social status.
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In total, this concerns about two thousand employees, who together make up 1500 FTE. The two ROCs - of which De Leijgraaf is the smaller institution - together have about 20 thousand students. The schools will continue under the name of the larger institution: Koning Willem 1 College.
Diverse offer
The merger is intended to ensure that a 'broad and diverse' range of vocational training programs remains in Northeast Brabant at a time when student numbers are declining, the ROC writes in its statement. website. The locations will remain in Den Bosch, Oss, Veghel and Cuijk and the institutions promise that education will remain small-scale and organized in the region. Former education minister Ingrid van Engelshoven (D66) demanded that students be taught in small groups and feel at home at their school when she approved the merger in October 2021.
The minister demanded that students be taught in small groups and feel at home in their school when she agreed to the merger
Secondary employment conditions
The unions participated in the discussion about equalizing the secondary employment conditions of all employees and the social status. AObDistrict manager Anita Duchateau has been negotiating about this since the summer holidays. “There were some differences,” she says. “Employers often try to cut spending.” Travel costs were one such example. “At one organization they received a travel allowance for 40 weeks a year. At the other organization 45 weeks. The proposal was to equalize this to 40 weeks for everyone," says Duchateau. “That was a deterioration and we managed to increase it to 42 weeks for teachers and 45 weeks for educational support staff up to and including scale 8.”
In addition, clear agreements have been made about the social status. Using this to manage during reorganisations. That is not the case at the moment, but if it ever becomes necessary, and employees are given a lower position as a result of a reorganisation, they must always remain in their own pay scale. “Such agreements are contained in such a statute,” says Duchateau.
The unions also made agreements about the bicycle plan, the monetary amounts for anniversaries and the contribution to additional health insurance. The total expenditure for these terms of employment increases by 3 million euros. There was sufficient support for the negotiator's agreement, because the members recently voted in favor.
Present
The function houses have also been merged. Duchateau: “The positions at De Leijgraaf are fitted into the job classification system of the Koning Willem 1 College. We have insisted that the draft change of the job classification be submitted to the works council and, if there are consequences for employment conditions, that the unions should consider this.”
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