On Friday 8th November, pay negotiations across the six sub-sectors of Austria’s metals industry came to a conclusion, after an agreement was reached in the foundry sector. The six agreements, negotiated separately, are identical. They provide for an increase in the pay of some 195,000 workers, of between 2.6% and 2.8% depending on their pay grade. The minimum wage will rise to 2,000 euros per month, gross. Meanwhile the so-called ‘free time or money’ option will apply to certain wage components. The agreements are valid for a year, as of 1 November 2019.
Pay rises of between 2.6% and 2.8%. It took only seven weeks for social partners in the metals sector, namely the Pro-GE (industry) and DPA-djp (employees) trade unions and the employer federations for the industry’s sub-sectors – machine tool sector (130,000 employees), the automobile sector (35,000), mining and steel (17,000), foundries (7,000), non-ferrous metals (6500) and the heating sector (6,000) – to agree on the renewal of their sector collective agreements, which are ultimately absolutely identical.
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