Switzerland
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.
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Federal government workers in Switzerland will get a 1% real increase in pay this year, their first real pay increase since 1991. Since 2004 prices have risen by 3.1% and workers have been compensated by one-off payments. These will now be integrated into pay rates. According to a review of the latest pay round by the SGB confederation, pay increases in regional government, the Cantons, range between 2.2% and 3.2% with the increases mostly made up of general rises and other bonuses or performance-related and individual increases. [Read more at > VPOD-SSP (DE)->http://www.vpod.ch/aktuell
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
The 70,000 workers covered by the health and social care collective agreement will get a 2.4% pay increase from January 2007, ahead of the current inflation rate of 1.1%. The agreement is extended to cover even those employers who are not part of the health and social care employers' organisation that negotiated the deal. The agreement is the biggest negotiated by the GPA-DJP (the private employees' union that has just merged with the print, journalists and paper union) and covers the disabled, elderly and child care sectors as well as youth welfare organisations. [Read more at > GPA-DJP (DE)-
