Health care unions reached an agreement with the employers’ organization for academic hospitals NFU after a conflict about compliance with the collective agreement. The more than 80,000 employees in academic medical centres (UMC) will get a wage increase of more than 10% in 2023. At the end of November, the unions considered going to court, when the NFU proposed less than half of the agreed wage increase. All employees will now receive an additional 6% wage increase on 1 January 2023. This will partly make up for the loss of purchasing power in the short term. On 1 November 2023, the employees will receive a second wage increase of 4%. According to the UMC collective agreement, the wage increase for 2023 should at least equal the increase of the consumer price index according to the 2022 government budget.
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