Large differences in the home work allowance for higher professional education
The fees of universities of applied sciences for working from home and the internet differ greatly. Teaching staff from higher professional education can find a much smaller amount on the salary slip at one university of applied sciences than colleagues from a school further away. The AOb wants one central collective labor agreement.
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“We want all teaching staff to receive a 2 euro allowance per working day from home,” says AObdriver Douwe van der Zweep. The differences are apparent from an inventory of the AObsector board of higher professional education that, together with district administrators, scrutinized the allowances.
A university of applied sciences in the south of the country gives an internet allowance of 25 euros per month, but no home work allowance yet. As of this year, employees at iPabo and Hogeschool Utrecht will receive 2 euros for every day they work from home. Colleagues at other schools, on the other hand, receive a fixed amount per month of 30 euros for working from home in proportion to their employment, while 50 euros per month, including the internet allowance, has been agreed at a large university of applied sciences further down the road.
One-off payment
Many universities of applied sciences gave their employees a one-off benefit over last year. It was the year in which corona started and there was not as much teaching from home as now. The one-off fees differ widely. For example, there were HBO employees who received 100 euros once, while several universities of applied sciences, such as Fontys and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, paid out a one-off amount of 200 euros to their staff. Some colleges paid out in proportion to their employment while others gave everyone the same amount.
It is substantial money
Home work allowances sometimes run until August this year, but may just as well run until May. One district manager announced that there was a university of applied sciences that has not yet made any agreements at all, because they want to see what the situation is like in September.
Substantial money
The differences are AObdriver Van der Zweep an eyesore. “It's about substantial money. We tried to lay it down centrally in a collective labor agreement, but the employers did not want it. If you now see the big differences, it is wise to do so. It is undesirable to reward people who do the same work differently. ”
It is undesirable to pay people who do the same job differently
All HBO employees should receive a 2 euro allowance for working from home per day, de AOb-driver. “This is a guideline of it Nibud and that ties in with the actual costs incurred. ” This calculation does not include telephone costs, travel costs and costs for computers. "We will certainly include this point again in collective bargaining, because very strange differences do arise here."
The collective labor agreement in higher professional education is tacitly renewed and will now run until October 1, 2021.
