New agreement for church social welfare workers

Austria

Around 5000 employees of the Diakonie church social welfare organisation will benefit from a new agreement negotiated by the vida and GPA-djp trade unions. There will be a 1.35% increase on all pay and allowances apart from those workers on less than EUR 1500 a month who will be 1.5%. There will also be new rules on past work experience. Now half of all previous experience in any job will be taken into account in terms of the pay scale up to a maximum of 10 years. This should benefit many women workers in particular.
Read more at > vida (DE)

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