Austria - Pay increases in outsourced services - December 21, 2010

The GÖD public services union reports several negotiated pay rises in agreements that are now negotiated separately from the main public sector agreement. All five agreements will see pay increases from 1 January 2011. In the universities it will be € 34.50 a month, meaning a 2.5% increase for the lowest paid. There is a 0.7% increase in the Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) but a minimum rise of € 35. Workers in the Employment Service (AMS) will get 1.25% while employees at Research (Forschung) Austria will get 2.1%. The pay rise in the Federal Computing Service (BRZ) will be 1% with a € 45 minimum and 1% on additional payments, meaning 2.87% for the lowest paid.

English: http://www.epsu.org/cob/393

German: http://www.goed.at/17014.html

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.