Less collective agreements concluded in the first four months of this year – NU.nl

reported that employers’ association AWVN Wednesday.

This year, closed up 85 cao,Äôs now. This is considerably less than the 147 agreements that arose in previous years during the same period.

” Although the negotiation process for most cao,Äôs still takes a long time due to differences of opinion regarding the wage shows a clear positive undercurrent around other collective thema,Äôs ” says the AWVN.

So contain the cao,Äôs this year already concluded agreements on sustainable employability for workers longer and healthier on to keep the job, jobs for disabled people and carers. ” In April closed cao,Äôs even showed significantly more such events than cao,Äôs from the first three months of this year. ”

Compared to last year increased the share cao,Äôs with agreements sustainable employability by 9 percentage points to 79 percent. In April, the percentage was even 88 percent.

The percentage cao,Äôs with an appointment for care increased from 21 percent in 2014 to 31 percent in 2015. In April this was 44 percent. And “persons with a distance to the labor market ‘made in April in 63 per cent of collective agreements agreements in the first four months was 46 percent. Last year this was only a third of the collective agreements the case.

In the month of April, fourteen new cao,Äôs established with an average wage increase of 1.6 percent. For the whole of 2015, the average is also 1.6 percent

By:. ANP