Trade unions and the employers’ associations of temporary work agencies ABU and NBBU have reached a new collective agreement for temp workers. With the agreement, another step is taken towards an equivalent position of temp workers and regular staff. The main points of the agreement are: work experience counts for the level of pay, better reimbursements, allowances and increments and a longer term for claiming a transition payment after the end of the contract. In case of illness, temp workers will receive 90% of their pay in the first year and 80% in the second year.
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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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