Real pay increase for health and social care workers

Negotiations are underway between the GPA-DJP and vida trade unions and the BAGS employers’ organization over a new agreement covering 75,000 workers in private health and social care services. The unions argue that it is vital to maintain increases in earnings for this group of workers particularly as the majority are women and their aim is to obtain a minimum amount of increase in euros as well as an overall percentage rise. Vida is also in the middle of negotiations covering the 15,000 employees in private health institutions. The union is again looking for a real increase in pay along with

The 2009 pay increase for most federal government workers will be 2.2%, effectively a 1.1% real increase in pay that has been welcomed by the VPOD-SSP public service union. However, there will higher increases of up to 6.6% for the higher paid on the basis of a pay comparability study from 2005. The union is disappointed with this differentiated pay award and had put in a claim for a 3% pay increase for all federal employees. [Read more at > VPOD-SSP (DE)->http://www.vpod.ch/aktuell/nachrichten/ansicht/article/bundespersonal-wenigstens-ein-bisschen-mehr-reallohn.html?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=34

After two bargaining rounds unions and employers in the electricity sector negotiated a new collective agreement that comes into effect on 1 February. The 16000 workers in the industry will get a pay rise of between 1.9% and 2.1% with the higher increase for lower paid workers. Inflation in 2014 averaged 1.7% but was 1.0% in the year to December 2014. The agreement also includes provisions for continued discussions related to shift work and arduous work in relation to working lives. [Read more > GPA-djp (DE)->http://www.gpa-djp.at/cms/A03/A03_0.a/1342554288736/home/e-wirtschaft-loehne-und