Hungary - Wage agreement at Hungarian State Railways - January 19, 2011

On 18 January the employer and trade unions with the Hungarian State Railway (MÁV) have concluded three agreements, on wages, an amendment with the collective agreement, and on employment. According to the wage agreement, the gross wages of those earning less than HUF 293,400 (€1,070) per month will be compensated for the decline in net wages stemming from personal income tax changes. Under the scope of the collective agreement parties agreed to raise the gross value of benefits-in-kind (cafeteria items) by HUF 12,000 (€44) to HUF 350,000 (€1,280) annually.

English: Máté Komiljovics, union correspondent

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.