Negotiations start for doctors in religious hospitals

The vida services union has negotiated a new collective agreement with religious hospitals that has been approved by 92% of union members. The finalisation of the agreement was also pending confirmation of funding from the City of Vienna. Salaries increase by 8.3% with a 7.9% increase on allowances. The night work allowance for doctors increases to €20.00 an hour (18.8%) and the Sunday allowance to €14.00 an hour (20.9%). For non-medical staff the increase in the night and Sunday allowance takes it to €53.00 (21.5%) for more than four hours, otherwise to €6.63 an hour (21%). Workers get a

The Kommunal municipal service workers’ trade union continues to negotiate collective agreements with a wide range of employers in a busy bargaining round. Workers in church and religious organisations are now covered by a new agreement running from 1 October 2023 to 30 September 2025 while the agreement covering those in the sports sector applies from 1 November 2023 to 31 October 2025. In both cases the pay increases are in line with the main labour market trend. In the religious organisations there will be average salary increases of SEK 1037 (€89) this year and SEK 961 (€83) next year

The vida services union has a negotiated a collective agreement covering doctors employed by Viennese religious, non-profit hospitals. It sees this as a real milestone from the trade union point of view, filling an important gap in the collective bargaining landscape. The agreement provides, for the first time a transparent pay structure and framework of other employment conditions where there had been widely differing pay and conditions across the eight individual hospitals in the organisation. The arrangements are also comparable to those in the public sector. [Read more at > vida (DE)->http