Less signed collective agreements – Telegraaf.nl

AMSTERDAM –

In the first four months of this year are much less than collective agreements concluded in the same period last year. This was reported by the employers’ association AWVN Wednesday

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This year, closed until now 85 collective agreements. This is considerably less than the 147 agreements that arose in previous years during the same period. “Although the negotiation process for most collective agreements still takes a long time by differences over wage increases, a clear positive undercurrent around other collective issues,” the AWVN.

Longer and healthier

So include collective agreements this year already concluded agreements on sustainable employability for workers longer and healthier to keep the job, jobs for disabled people and carers. “In April, collective labor agreements showed even significantly more such agreements or collective agreements in the first three months of this year.”

Compared to last year increased the proportion of collective agreements with agreements on sustainable employability by 9 percentage points to 79 percent . In April, the percentage was even 88 percent. The percentage of collective agreements with an agreement on informal care increased from 21 percent in 2014 to 31 percent in 2015. In April this was 44 percent.

And about ‘people with a distance to the labor market “in April 63 percent made 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 collective agreement concluded with an average wage increase of 1.6 percent. For the whole 2015 the average is also 1.6 percent

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