Ver.di pushes for implementation of new pay structure

After several years of negotiations some 140000 federal employees are will soon be covered by a new pay system. Ver.di believes many workers will benefit from the modernised pay structure and improved system of job classification. Skilled technicians, IT workers, clerical and administrative staff and forest workers are among those that will benefit from the new arrangements. In local government ver.di's bargaining committee is continuing discussions with the employers' organisation over a new pay structure. The current collective agreement for federal and local government staff expires at the

Recent negotiations between the BDE private waste employers' association and ver.di produced an agreement to overhaul the pay structure in the industry. As an interim measure the 67,000 workers in the industry will get lump sum payments in 2006 and 2007 while a new pay structure is negotiated. The 2006 lump sum will be in line with the percentage increases being awarded across Germany in collective negotiations. The aim of the new pay structure will be to try to ensure that more employers are covered by the collective agreement and to try to put an end to widespread undercutting of pay rates.

Public services union ver.di is calling on the federal and local government employers to get on with negotiating a new pay structure. The unions and employers are due to meet at the end of the month for fresh talks following a meeting in September where the employers raised a series of questions rather than taking steps towards a new agreement. Ver.di also wants assurances from the employers that certain pay allowances will continue to be paid as their payment was only guaranteed up to the end of October in the current collective agreement. [Read more at > ver.di (DE)->https://tarif-oed.verdi