The ver.di services union has negotiated a new collective agreement at the Helios hospital company which employs around 17,000 workers across Germany. The agreement runs from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2012 and includes a 2% increase for 2011 (backdated to 1 April) and a 3% increase from 1 May 2012. Increases for doctors are different as they get on average a 3% increase from 1 January 2011 and a 2.4% increase from 1 March 2012. Their 15% increase on the supplement for night work which will now also be paid for on-call time at night.
English: http://www.epsu.org/cob/420
German: http://presse.verdi.de/pressemitteilungen/showNews?id ...
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.