Netherlands - New agreements for primary and secondary education - November 30, 2025

Negotiators in both primary education and secondary education have reached new collective agreements. All employees will receive a two-step pay increase of 5,8%, and travel allowances have also been increased. Support staff who cover for teachers will now receive compensation stipulated in the collective agreement. The collective agreements will — if all union members and the employers' organizations agree — run from 1 November 2025 to 1 March 2027. Employees will get the first increment retroactively on 1 November 2025, as a 4,6% increase. The second increment, a 1,2% increase, will follow a year later on 1 November 2026.

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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.
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