📋 Tender Overview
On December 7 2022 the government initialed an agreement with representative trade unions on the elimination of wage disparities in health and social care. On the basis of the initialed agreement with the unions wages in the field of social security will increase in 31 jobs for approximately 1900 employees. The planned increases are from two to four salary grades. We express our satisfaction at the ministry because we always emphasize that employees in social care are underpaid for their work.The salary increase will be introduced gradually partially in January and additionally in April 2023. For example if the salary in the workplace is 4 salary classes higher than the agreed salary the employee will be recognized with an additional two salary classes for the salary for January and for the salary for April two more pay grade increases.These are jobs such as professional workers at CSD individual and group habilitators physiotherapists occupational therapists positions of managers in the salary group of professional workers in the field of social care. The total estimated financial effect for the field of social security is EUR 5.2 million for the year 2023 the calculation of the financial effect also includes the agreed additional salary class that employees receive based on the agreement at central negotiations.Among other things the signatories of the agreement have also pledged that unrealized issues from the agreement concluded in the field of health and social care in 2021 as well as remaining open issues in the field of the wage system and the acts arising from it including the adoption of standards and norms will be regulated within coordination on systemic changes to the public sector salary system.The government in cooperation with the trade unions will prepare criteria and criteria on the basis of which it will adopt a special government project for certain jobs in salary group J from the health and social care activities which will enable this group of employees to receive performance pay due to the increased volume of work.
