NEA Index 2023 11,3% or higher. The expiry of the ultimatum means that the collective labor agreement wage increase may not be passed on in the rates.
Employers Healthcare Transport and Taxi are surprised about the hesitation of trade unions in the final offer. The employers in healthcare and taxi transport have made a final offer for a new collective labor agreement as of 2023, with an ultimatum until Tuesday 25 October. The trade unions CNV and FNV have let this ultimatum expire, effectively suspending the historically high wage offer of more than 12% and negotiations. Martijn Kersing (KNV) finds it incomprehensible that the unions have not yet accepted the final offer.
“We attach great importance to a new collective labor agreement, which provides peace of mind and clarity for everyone. With their attitude, unions threaten to screw up the employees' much-desired wage increase of 1% as of 8 January.”
During the negotiations, employers increasingly received the signal that for most of their employees an increase in salary was the most important thing, while unions set additional requirements and conditions. In order to test this, KNV has drawn up a survey that the employers sent out to their staff, in which the employees could indicate whether they agree with the employer's proposal.
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This survey was completed more than 3200 times and more than 74% of the respondents (90% of whom are drivers) would agree with the employers' proposal. The survey was anonymous and non-binding and could only be completed once. Employers could not see which employees completed the survey, nor view the results. If an employee did not approve of the final offer, he or she could also indicate why not, which is why more than 25% of the respondents made use of it.
Employers are surprised that unions have not yet submitted the final offer to their supporters, all the more because their own staff know very well that the corona crisis and the current high costs are not doing the industry any good and there is therefore a good final offer. There is really not much more to it on the part of employers.
The expiry of the ultimatum means that the collective labor agreement wage increase cannot be passed on in the rates. Martijn Kersing says that because a new collective labor agreement cannot be taken into account in the NEA index (which is often used in the industry), a national average wage cost development will be assumed that is much lower than what we would like our employees to expect. pay out. However, the NEA index has not yet been definitively established and employers still want to come to a new collective labor agreement with the unions on the basis of the final offer, so that employees will receive the wage increase as of 1 January 2023.
Once the NEA index has been published and no new collective labor agreement has been agreed, it is impossible at a later date to agree on more than what is taken into account in the index. Employers can then no longer pass on these extra costs. Entrepreneurs have already had their pick of the sharp rise in fuel prices in recent months. The index for this year has not been able to take this into account. The margins in transport are low. Additional costs that are not covered by income cannot be borne by the sector.
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Also according to SFM, the NEA index will not be published in October this year, but on November 14. The reason for the delay is the collective labor agreement negotiations. There is currently no agreement and the wage increase for 2023 is not yet known. Wage costs have a large share in the NEA index. In order to give the parties to the collective labor agreement as much time as possible to reach an agreement, the sounding board group has decided to extend the adoption and publication of the NEA index until 14 November. The sounding board group consists of representatives of the national Platform for Clients Target Group Transport, carriers and trade unions.If the parties to the collective labor agreement do not reach a negotiated result before 14 November, the wage component in the index will be determined on the basis of the average wage increase as stated in the Macro Economic Outlook. This increase is 3,9%. The NEA index for 2023 will then amount to approximately 11,3%. Based on the current talks between trade unions and employers, it cannot be ruled out that the wage increase will be substantially more than 3,9%, so that an NEA index between 13% and 15% must be taken into account. The exact percentage of the index will be announced on November 14.
