Employees of nursing homes have in recent months actions carried out several times for better collective agreement. Photo ANP / Robin Lonkhuijsen.
Employers and employees have reached an agreement in the healthcare sector. The new collective agreement applies to about four hundred and fifty thousand people in nursing homes and home care (VVT), reports Abvakabo union FNV.
The health care workers receive two percent salary. Months have been negotiated for this new agreement and campaigned in dozens of nursing homes.
Minimum Salary for the sector
The NIS shows Abvakabo negotiator Lilian Marijnissen know that the unions “have turned a trend.” She is referring to the so-called ‘wage dumping’ where care workers are made redundant, to be hired at a lower salary later.
In the new CBA is agreed that people who happened to get lost salary back. Also stipulates that employees who transfer to another care company retained
Halt extensive flexibility
The new CBA care workers get a fixed number of hours. The “zero-hours contracts’ largely disappear. According Abvakabo the current zero-hours contracts not only cause uncertainty among employees.
“For clients the flexibility means that they often get to see new faces. This reduces time with the fixed number of hours in the new CBA. “
Role Jacques Tichelaar
All parties involved in the negotiation of collective had in July This year Jacques Tichelaar, commissioner of the King in Drenthe, asked for an independent chairman to lead. the collective bargaining process in the right direction
The unions involved Abvakobo FNV, CNV Public thing, FBZ and NU’91 and employers ActiZ and BTN explain shortly the new health care plan for their supporters. The collective agreement runs from September 1, 2014 to April 1, 2016
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