Austria - Health and social care workers get 2% increase - January 24, 2011

After difficult negotiations the VIDA and GPA-DJP trade unions have agreed a 2% pay increase for the 80,000 workers in the private health and social care sector. The agreement runs for 12 months from February 2011. The unions argue that they have secured a small real pay increase as well as improvements in two areas: leave to look after seriously ill relatives and past service entitlement. The new rules on past service will benefit workers who change employers within the sector as it will mean their past service will have to be taken into account in setting their pay level (See also this Collective Bargaining Newsletter Year 3 December 2010).

English: http://www.epsu.org/cob/398

German: http://www.vida.at/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=S03 …;

http://www.gpa-djp.at/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=GPA ...

This article was published in the Collective Bargaining Newsletter. It aims to facilitate information exchange between trade unions and to support the work of ETUC's collective bargaining committee. For more information, please contact the editor Maarten van Klaveren, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2011.