Netherlands: Salaries of University Employees to Increase by 4%
Categories: US Education News
Universities and employee organizations in the Netherlands have reached a negotiation settlement on the Collective Labor Agreement at Dutch universities for 2022/23, Universities of the Netherlands (UNL), a network of 14 Dutch universities, has announced.In a press release issued lately by UNL, the parties expected to sign the Collective Labor Agreement have agreed that the salaries of university employees will structurally increase by 4 percent on July 1, 2022.The final Collective Labor Agreement, according to the statement, will be concluded by June 9, at the latest, Erudera College News reports. In addition, the agreement foresees a one-off payment of €400 gross in proportion to the size of the employment, while for employees who receive the minimum hourly salary at the university sector, the amount under the same conditions is €750.The press release further notes that universities, along with employee organizations, will begin a joint study in September this year to determine how the contractual position of lecturers can be improved when the next Collective Labor Agreement is reached. Universities of the Netherlands stressed that the Collective Labor Agreement will be effective until March 31, 2023, and will apply to more than 57,000 employees working in the higher education sector.According to data by UNL, as of December 31, 2020, the Dutch universities employed total of 57,642 staff, equivalent to 49,437 FTEs, in permanent or temporary job positions.Out of 57,642 employees, 3,555 are employed as professors, 6,383 as assistant professors, 5,297 as teachers, 4962 as researchers, 9,721 as Ph.D. candidates, and 24,535 as support staff.