Netherlands - Bargaining result for maternity care - November 30, 2025

A negotiated result has been reached for the Maternity Care collective agreement. The deal includes pay increases in 2025 and 2026 and new agreements on on-call shifts. Pay increases will be 4% as of 1 August 2025, and 3.5% as of 1 July 2026. The collective agreement runs until 31 August 2026. Over a three-year period, there will be a 7.5% salary increase. According to FNV union, the position of maternity nurses requires further improvement. The union will continue to lobby for this in politics and the media.

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For more information, please contact Paul de Beer or Oana Ciuca, De Burcht (Scientific Bureau for the Dutch Trade Union Movement) p.t.debeer@uva.nl or the Head of communications at the ETUI, Mehmet Koksal mkoksal@etui.org. For previous full issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit https://www.etui.org/Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter or consult the archive with all articles in our database at www.cbnarchive.eu.
You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org.