Government and unions agree pay deal for 2006

Public sector unions, including ver.di, have secured a pay increase for 800000 regional government workers after four rounds of negotiations. Pay will rise in two steps with a 2.1% increase backdated to 1 March 2015 and then 2.3% on 1 March 2016. There will be a minimum increase of €75 a month so that the overall increase will average 4.83%, with the lowest paid getting more than 6%. In Hessen there separate negotiations for the 45000 regional government workers and warning strikes took place around the region on 13 April to support ver.di and the other unions in their 5.5% claim. [Read more

A new collective agreement covering 580,000 employees in regional government has been approved by ver.di’s collective bargaining committee. There will be a lump sum payment of €360 (€120 for trainees) plus a pay increase of 1.5% from 1 April this year. Ver.di estimates this to be worth around 2.3% overall. There will be a further pay increase on 1 January 2012, consisting of 1.9% plus €17 (€6 for trainees) that ver.di calculates as an overall increase of 2.55%. The union also believes that a new pay structure, coming into effect from 1 January 2012, will mean workers moving more rapidly to the

The FNV and other trade unions have negotiated a new two-year collective agreement covering workers in central government that will run from 1 July. The first pay increase of 2.5% plus an amount of €75 will be paid out in September 2022 but backdated to 1 July. From that date there will also be a minimum hourly wage of €14. There will be a further structural salary increase of 3% on 1 April 2023 and another 1.5% will follow on 1 January 2024. In December 2022 and in April 2023, there will be lump sum payments of €450 (gross), adjusted according to number of weekly working hours. There is a