Salary increase of 9 percent for university employees
More permanent jobs, a 9 percent wage increase and a one-off payment. These are the most important agreements from the negotiating agreement that was concluded today between the trade unions and universities.
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“The agreement contains a good wage increase and also a clear and concrete step towards fewer temporary jobs and more permanent jobs for teachers,” says AObdriver Donald Pechler.
An employee with minimum hourly wage receives a one-off payment of 1200 euros gross
The 9 percent wage increase will take effect on August 1. In addition, there is a one-off benefit, which varies in height. An employee with minimum hourly wage receives a one-off gross payment of 1200 euros, an employee up to and including scale 9 receives 1000 euros, and from scale 10 a payment of 800 euros applies (all this in proportion to employment).
"It took a while, with many rounds of negotiations, but now there is a pretty good collective labor agreement result on the table," says negotiator Jan Boersma of FNV Education & Research. "With a substantial wage increase, which is especially necessary for employees in the lower scales to cover the ever-increasing cost of living. And we are now actually going to take steps to reduce the number of flexible jobs for lecturers at the universities."
Temporarily
In the agreement it has been agreed to reduce the percentage of temporary employment of teaching staff from 15 to 13,5 percent. About 300 full-time positions of temporary teaching positions will be converted into permanent positions or positions for university lecturers within a maximum of three years. And lecturers have priority when filling vacancies for teaching positions within their own field, after assessing whether the position requirements are met.
Month
The agreements from the negotiating agreement, which still have to be approved by the members of the trade unions, also include continued payment of wages in the event of illness and trade union facilities. From now on, a 'month of the trade union' applies at the start of the academic year. Employees who join in this month will receive half of their first annual contribution – with a maximum of one hundred euros per employee.
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