Trade unions and employers have Tuesday morning, after nearly twenty hours of negotiating, a design of loonakkoord reached. That the social partners have after published. Not all unions go, however, the proposal to defend only the present.

The agreement means an increase in wages this year and next with a maximum of 1.1 per cent over the index . Including the index, this means that there are 4,54% storage this year and next together.

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Also the minimum wages go up, by 1.1 percent, or 10 cents per hour . Trade unions had an increase of 10 percent has been set for the increase of this minimum wage. “We had expected more,” said Miranda Ulens, general secretary of the FGTB. Trade unions and employers will be in a workgroup and see how that minimum wages “substantially” can be increased.

Employees can also count on a higher contribution of the employer for their train, tram and bus ticket . The intervention rises from 64 to 70 percent.

There should be also more and more overtime to be performed: the number of voluntary overtime that may be performed rising from 100 to 120 hours per year . Here were the employers then clearly more expected.

Also, agreements were made about the SWT-ages , the ages of who is eligible for a system of unemployment with company supplement, known as ‘early retirement’. For the long careers, and the heavy work continues according to the draft agreement possible for another 2.5 years at 59 years old on early retirement to go. For companies in difficulties and in restructuring the brugpensioenleeftijd raised from 56 to 58 years, in 2019, to 59 years in 2020 and to 60 years to the end of 2020. Runways remain then possible again to 55 years for some uitzonderingsregimes, provided that four-fifths are in progress. For older workers who part-time work, are those runways, from 57 years.

benefits go up . The lowest benefits rise by 2.4 percent, the highest of 1.1 percent.

Higher expectations at ABVV

Not all unions go the draft agreement to defend. Trade unions will agree on Tuesday to submit to his authorities, do not defend. “There are different elements in, we’ll see what the membership says,” according to Ulens. “We had higher expectations about the minimum wages,” Ulens. “It was not evident, consultation, in a difficult context. The balance in all elements.”

Also ACV will design, today “explain” to his authorities, said president Marc Leemans. The union will then have a month to take the time to its members on the proposal of agreement to inform and consult. On march 26, it should be clear what the members of the proposal.

It is a valid agreement. We have the maximum taken out

Mario Coppens, chairman of the liberal union

Mario Coppens, chairman of the liberal union, the proposal will, however, defend his supporters. “It is a defensible agreement,” said Coppens, even though the wage norm of 1.1 percent or more. “We go to the proposal defense. There is substance in. Whether that will be enough, we will see.”

“We have the maximum taken out. The agreement is a good thing for the purchasing power of the workers. Within the legal framework this agreement the most viable”, responded Coppens in The Morning’ on Radio 1.