At the end of last year, the social partners in care and taxi transport agreed on a new collective labor agreement. In recent weeks, work has been done on finalizing the new collective labor agreement texts. These texts are now ready and adopted by the collective labor agreement parties CNV Vakmensen, FNV Taxi and Royal Dutch Transport, Care Transport and Taxi. The new collective labor agreement will be presented to the ministry to be declared universally binding. The collective labor agreement entered into force on 1 January 2022, whereby the new paid time system will take effect on 1 March 2022. As soon as the collective labor agreement has been declared universally binding, the collective labor agreement will also apply to companies that are not affiliated with KNV.

After the parties reached agreement on October 19, there was still a difference of opinion about the precise formulation of the rewarded time. Due to further consultation, this difference of opinion has disappeared in recent times and agreement has been reached on the wording as it eventually ended up in the collective labor agreement texts.

Pay scales, salary steps and other name
The wage scales have been increased by 1 percent as of 2022 January 2,5. In addition, the second step will be removed from the salary scale, so that drivers go through the wage structure more quickly. Finally, in order to do more justice to the sector as a whole, the name of the collective labor agreement has been changed from 'Taxi Transport Collective Labor Agreement' to 'Care Transport and Taxi Collective Labor Agreement'.

Also read: Sector protocols for safe healthcare and taxi transport