Netherlands: employers reject “systematic” wage increases in collective agreements

.5% wage increase in 2012 and employers say it is too much. They are criticizing this trend of “systematic” increases. (Ref. 110562)

One of the biggest members of the Confederation
of Netherlands Industry and Employers (VNO-NCW), the general employers’
association (Algemene Werkgevers
Vereniging van Nederlandse, AWVN), thinks that systematic wage increases
should be banned from the collective bargaining framework. This organization, which negotiates 500 of
the 900 agreements signed each yea