“Wage costs hardly increase ‘- Focus on News

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The contractual wage costs rose by 0.4 percent in the first quarter of 2015. This is the lowest increase since fifteen years. The low labor cost increase is mainly due to changes in employers’ contributions to the collective wage increase in this quarter 1.2 percent. This makes CBS today.

That the wage increase is low in the first quarter, mainly because employers have less to contribute to several contributions, including those for retirement and unemployment. It is not the first time that labor costs have increased less than the negotiated wages. In 2006, this was also the case. When this was caused by lower employer premiums for disability and (early) retirement

Government:. Or wage, labor costs do not increase

In all sectors, the increase in contractual wage costs under of negotiated wages. In the public sector, this difference is greatest. The decrease of the pension is as large as the wage increase of 1.4 percent. This keeps the contractual wage costs for the government in the first quarter, unchanged from a year earlier. The wage in the public sector is the result of collective agreements in education and municipalities.

Highest CAO wages in industry

Of all industries was the CAO wage in industry 1.9 percent the highest in the first quarter of 2015. This is mainly due wage agreements which came into force in 2014 all within the industry. In energy wages increased by 0.6 per cent to the least.

Duration Most bouwcao’s expired

65 percent of the collective agreements concluded in the first quarter of 2015. In education, energy and other services are all collective agreements until the first quarter now closed, while in public administration and trade less than half of the collective agreements are concluded. When building waiting many collective agreements yet on a final agreement. This lack of industry data.

Cao wages above inflation

The average collective wage increase since 2011 is between 0.9 percent and 1.5 percent. Until mid-2014, the increase below inflation, but since the third quarter of 2014 is the collective wage increase over again. This is mainly because inflation declined in the first two months of this year to 0 percent. As a result, in the first quarter of 2015, the (real) wage increase 1.2 percentage points higher than inflation.