Negotiator agreement CAO-po: Substantial salary increase, actions are still necessary

Tekst Algemene Onderwijsbond - 6 juni 2018 - 6 Minuten om te lezen

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AObprimary education director Eugenie Stolk is satisfied with this the negotiation agreement. “With the extra money we received for the general salary increase and the revision of the salary scales for teachers, we have made the most of it. It is the first step towards a fair salary. We are going to present this negotiation agreement to our members with a positive advice. We are going to gauge that digitally, but we will also visit all regions to discuss it further. ” The most important agreements are listed below.

Wage increase 2,5 percent and 750 euros one-off

In the collective labor agreement a general wage increase of 2,5 percent has been agreed for everyone who works in primary and special education. This will take effect on 1 September 2018. In addition, a supplementary payment will follow with retroactive effect from January 2018. Not as a percentage of the wages, but a fixed amount of 750 euros gross for teachers, school leaders and support staff. “After tax, relatively more of such an amount remains for people in the lower salary scales,” says Stolk. “And we are happy with that. We call that cents before percentages in union language. ”

New functions and new salary scales

In the new collective labor agreement, the salary scales LA, LB and LC will be replaced by L10, L11 and L12. The salaries in the new L10 scale are at the same level - or slightly higher - than those in the current LB scale. “The disappearance of the LA salary scale is a long-cherished wish,” says AObdriver Eugenie Stolk. “It is fantastic that this has finally succeeded. A new start-up scale for starters has not been introduced either. ” Each teacher goes up one scale: from LA to L10, LB to L11 and LC to L12. View in this appendix of the negotiation agreement the new job descriptions.

Teachers are making significant progress with the new salary scales. The current LA scale will disappear. For example, the gross salary of a full-time working teacher in the current scale LA step 7 increases from 2776 euros to 3049 euros per month. For all teacher scales is in this new salary table to see how the changes will turn out between now and September 2018. Budget for this change is from 1 January. That is why teachers will receive a supplementary payment in October, which amounts to 42 percent of the new monthly wage. In this appendix all new salaries for educational supporters, school leaders and teachers can be found.

“The disappearance of the LA salary scale is a long-cherished wish,” says AObdriver Eugenie Stolk

The new salary scales for teachers also include some - until now - separate allowances, such as the extension allowance and the binding allowance. The latter is a one-off amount that was paid in August to teachers who were at the top of their scale. These allowances have not been canceled, but are now included in the monthly salaries. They therefore also count towards the pension and salary increases.

From now on, only the holiday allowance, the end-of-year allowance and the Teacher's Day allowance will be paid separately. “That way, you don't have to check whether you will receive the allowances to which you are entitled,” says Stolk.

Further increase in teacher salaries in 2019 and 2020

In the coming years, the money from the job mix will also be passed on to the teachers. This money was intended to enable teachers to progress to higher salary scales, but remained on the shelf of some of the boards. This money will also be added to the teacher's salaries in the coming years, as of January 1, 2019 and January 1, 2020. The salary of a teacher in the current scale LA level 7 will therefore increase twice by 15 and 14 euros. The emphasis in this CLA is clearly on wages. “In the field of flex work, the starting point remains that a permanent job should be the norm. Other contracts such as the min / max contract have been removed. ”

40-hour working week is not compulsory

School teams are also given a major role in allocating the work. “This is already happening at the moment when the money that each school has been given to reduce the workload. The process of taking control at team level works well, so we have continued that line. ”

Stolk emphasizes that teachers do not have to be present at school 40 hours a week - not in the current collective labor agreement, and certainly not in the new one. “Those forty hours from the current collective labor agreement have taken on a life of their own, and many boards have interpreted this as compulsory attendance. It was never intended that way. Under the new collective labor agreement, the team explicitly makes agreements about attendance at school – which could actually have happened in recent years.”

In the new collective labor agreement, the team decides how many hours of lessons everyone will be deployed. It can vary from 930 (the number of teaching hours for which there is funding per full-timer) to a higher number of teaching hours. If it becomes more than 940, this is only possible if the individual employee agrees. At the moment there are two more options, depending on the model that a school has chosen: maximum 930 teaching hours or no maximum. “We see in practice that teachers now sometimes teach 950 or 1000 hours,” says Stolk. “Those committed 940 hours are therefore an improvement on balance. Although that number of teaching hours should, in our opinion, be reduced in the long term. That will be high on the list for the next collective labor agreement. ”

Fair salary promotions continue

The current collective labor agreement has a short term: until 1 March 2019. This is because education will still demand money from the cabinet next Budget Day. “This collective labor agreement is a nice interim result, but we are not there yet,” says Stolk. “Because the pay gap with secondary education has not yet been closed. If we want to keep the profession of primary school teacher attractive and prevent major teacher shortages, we will have to pay primary and secondary school teachers the same. Another 600 million euros is needed from the cabinet to achieve this.

If we want to keep the primary education teacher's profession attractive and prevent major teacher shortages, we must start paying teachers in primary and secondary education the same

That is why the next relay strike will continue as usual: on September 12 in the provinces of Zeeland and South Holland. AObdirector Stolk counts on collaboration with fellow trade unions and employers, united in the PO front. “The collaboration of the past months makes you want more. We have already achieved a lot of results together. Now let's get on with it. ”

In short, we list all salary measures once again:

• General salary increase for support staff, teachers and directors: 750 euros one-off for the period 1 January 2018 to 1 September 2018 percent from 2,5 September 1
• New salary system for teachers.
  All LA teachers move to the new L10 salary scale. This scale means the salary level of the old LB scale.
  All LB teachers move to new scale L11, salary level slightly lower than LC.
  All teachers LC go to new scale L12, salary level slightly lower than LD
• Maximum LA was 3482, maximum L10 becomes 3875
  Maximum LB was 3826, maximum L11 becomes 4228
  Maximum LC was 4464, maximum L12 becomes 4851
• There was 270 million euros for the whole of 2018. For the period January-August, a supplementary payment for the difference between the old and new system of 42 percent of the new monthly wage will follow.
• For L10, the amounts will be increased in two steps in 2019 and 2020 by the 70 million euros from the job mix not yet used by schools. This means that the maximum L10 increases in two steps to 3910 and 3936 per month.

Useful! Watch the 2-minute video below with a summary of the negotiators' agreement. Download too the flyer in which all information is briefly included.