The negotiations in the crafts, services, information and consultancy branches led to a new collective agreement. The agreed pay increase will be 2.45% from 1 January 2014 onwards. The lowest wages increase with 2.6%. The 2015 increase will be based on the inflation plus 0.35% (plus 0.5% for the lowest wage levels. In other smaller branches (travel agencies, film industry and, for the first time since years, private health and rehabilitation centres) similar agreements were concluded.
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For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.