On Wednesday 22 November, Austria’s retail sector, the country’s largest employer with almost 400,000 workers, presented the results of negotiations that secured a collective agreement, which will run for twelve months from 01 December 2017. The agreement secures a pay rise ranging between 2.35% and 2.6% as well as some fresh provisions for workers as regards training. These are the first collective agreement negotiations to have been undertaken since the overhaul of the sector’s pay scales that was presented at the end of July 2017. The new more modern pay scale has been made more attractive to younger cohorts and it too will apply from 01 December 2017.
New agreement and a more modern pay scale. On 22 November, GPA-dip, the private sector employees union together with the Chamber of Austrian Employer’s (WKÖ) department responsible for retailing, which represent 404,000 workers and 80,000 businesses respectively presented the new sector collective agreement that will run for a year from 01 December 2017. Over the period the highest earners will receive 2.35% more pay while those at the lowest end of the pay scale will receive 2.6% more. Notewor
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