Negotiations on the new collective labor agreement for MBO
The unions and the employers' organization MBO council will start negotiations for a new collective labor agreement this evening. AOb-director Henrik de Moel is committed to a wage increase while retaining purchasing power, more teachers in the LC salary scale and he wants to take steps so that older colleagues can retire in good health
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“We have several spearheads during this round of negotiations,” says De Moel. First of all, the director wants to ensure that all MBO employees receive a wage increase while retaining purchasing power, because inflation is currently high. “This is a requirement that is FNV-wide in all sectors.”
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More LC teachers
The career prospects for teachers are specific to MBO. They must improve, as was also agreed in previous collective labor agreements. More lecturers must move on to the higher salary scale LC from LB. “Outside the Randstad, 60 percent of the teachers are still in an LB salary scale,” says the negotiator. “90 million euros is needed to improve career prospects. We are lobbying for this in The Hague together with the employers.”
Sustainable employability
Another big point is sustainable employability. “It turns out that it is difficult for MBO employees to keep it up until their retirement,” says De Moel. “So we really have to take steps in that direction.” The AOb therefore wants a vitality agreement, whereby older colleagues can achieve their pension in a responsible manner.
Working digitally, parental leave
The workload for all employees is also on the agenda, as are agreements about digital working. “We want to record that clearly and which conditions must then be met. With the pandemic it was of course mandatory, but we have to look closely at how we deal with this now.” The negotiators are also looking at travel costs during this round of negotiations. “That is rightly a theme now,” says De Moel, because of the rising fuel prices. The new law for parental leave - which will take effect from 1 August 2022 - will be discussed by the parties to the collective agreement during the negotiations.
De current collective labor agreement runs until May 1, 2022.
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