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Salaries in private, mostly non-profit, social and health companies will increase by 2.08 percent as of January 1, 2021. Basically, this increase was already agreed in the spring as part of an agreement of three years. At that time, an increase was determined for the 125,000 employees in the private care, health and social sectors for 2021 at the level of the inflation rate plus 0.6 percentage points.
Once the relevant inflation figures were available, this has now been established between Social Economy Austria (SWÖ) as employer representative and the GPA and life unions. In addition, it was agreed that the equality of manual workers with administrative workers applies to notice periods starting on January 1.
Contribution to making the professional field more attractive
“This year, the increase is greater than other industries. The crisis in the crown in particular has shown how important health and social sector employees are to society and what they do, so I am glad that we can honor this, “he added. SWÖ President Erich Fenninger said in a broadcast on Monday. For SWÖ CEO Walter Marschitz, the increase is an important step to strengthen the attractiveness of the professional field.
GPA negotiator Eva Scherz emphasized that comparison with salary increases in other industries in this particular crisis situation shows that the three-year degree earlier this year was a clear advantage for employees. Life negotiator Michaela Guglberger described as a “major success” that workers will no longer be worse off with the adjustment of notice periods in the social economy. (apa)
