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Table salaries of Communications and Logistics collective agreement will rise by 30,97 euros for each month. The raise will be the same for all and applied for salaries retrospectively starting from 1.11.2017.
In the collective bargaining negotiations of last September a calculating principle was agreed. Percentage of general salary raises is calculated as a mathematical average of general salary raises of the collective agreements of reference industries (Technology Industry, Raw Chemical Industry and Paper Industry). The collective agreement of Mechanical Lumber Industry was excluded from the calculating model as no agreement for the Industry was reached by the end of last year.
The way of calculation turned out to be hard to be agreed and the issue was taken to the National Conciliator. Arbitrational Committee gave on the 1st of Feb 2018 the solution of a general raise (1,31 %) based on voting 2 – 1 for which the Chairperson of PAU Heidi Nieminen left a dissenting opinion.
The raises by salary appendices are as follows:
In addition, monetary increases and shop steward fees are raised 1,31 per Cent.
The general raise is what applies to the communications and Logistics agreement now the first time calculated for the income of regular working hours. This implies that the salaries also include night and evening increases. That means the general raise 1,31 will raise e.g. table salaries of mail delivery by 1,35 – 1,76 per Cent.
Salary raises for Nov- Jan will probably be paid in connection with the last payroll date of February. According to the written communications and Logistics collective agreement the raises must be paid within one month from the date the raises are known, I.e. latest 1st of March.
The salaries will be raised next starting from the 1st of Nov 2018. The raise level is agreed between the collective parties until September.
New salary tables are updated to the website of PAU. Further details of the collective agreement is available e.g. in the next Reitti magazine that is published 1st of March.