The Government has agreed to increase primary school teachers’ pay to bring it into line with secondary school rates. The deal, worked out by Government officials and teachers’ unions, will see primary teachers’ pay rising by up to 10%, as well as extra measures to reduce their workload and help children who have fallen behind because of Covid-19 closures. In total, the deal will cost some €1.5 billion, of which €919 million will go to closing the pay gap - a commitment made in the new government’s coalition agreement. The pay rise will amount to an average of €5,300 a year for a full-time primary school teacher.
Read on: in English.
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.
You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org.