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Collective Labor Agreement limits salary jumps when promoted to a higher scale

When moving up to a higher pay scale, teaching staff can be set back in working years. This is how it works according to the collective labor agreement, as this issue of Information & Advice explains.

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Mats works in secondary education. He is in LB scale, step 7. Mats can move on to an LC position. He understands from the Human Resources department that in LC he will receive a classification of LC level 5 and that in August he will receive a periodic increase to LC level 6. Mats wonders whether this is correct. After all, he has already been working in an LB position for 7 years, but now he is set back in years? Shouldn't he just have LC step 7, or is that wrong? He calls the IAC.

Under normal circumstances, the amounts in the scales follow each other every year. Someone who started in LB step 1 will indeed be in LB step 7 after 7 years. In that respect, the steps do indeed resemble years of experience.

Next to higher step

However, if you change scale, such as from LB to LC or from LC to LD, your salary will be considered. When you receive a promotion, you end up in the so-called 'next higher' step. Mats earns 3439 euros in LB step 7. LC step 5 is 3488 euros and is the closest, higher salary amount in LC compared to LB. As of August, Mats then ends up in LC step 6 and earns 3662 euros.

According to Mats' reasoning, he should move from LB step 7 to LC step 7 when he is promoted. This would be a jump from 3439 euros to 3854 euros. As nice as this sounds, unfortunately it is not how the collective labor agreement works for Mats.

This is an episode in the Information & Advice section of the June issue of the Education magazine, which is published eleven times a year AObmembers falls on the bus. Read more about all the benefits of the AOb-membership? Look here.

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