A collective agreement was reached for the employees who fall under the Participation Act. This collective agreement will apply to people with disabilities who work in sheltered workplaces and employees who are seconded to a guaranteed job with an employer. There will be one wage structure with three job levels. These run from the minimum wage to 118% of the minimum wage in the highest scale. The working time is 37 hours.
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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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