New salary agreement catalogue is part of the current salary negotiations
As the salary negotiations enter their final phase, they do so with Health's new salary agreement catalogue providing the framework. The salary agreement catalogue ensures a uniform and transparent pay formation for the faculty’s employees, and this year it has been updated with a new section for technical/administrative staff salaries.
Health's salary agreement catalogue is revised approximately bi-annually. This time around, particular attention has been given to technical/administrative staff, with a new chapter – Chapter 5 – on salary agreements for these employees. There is also a smaller update for academic staff.
Furthermore, the salary agreement catalogue has been adapted to ensure that it is now comparable with the equivalents at NAT and TECH. For academic staff, this means that e.g. all individually negotiated supplements must in future be divisible by DKK 5,000, and for this reason, previously agreed supplements for associate professors and professors have been rounded up. In addition, pay compositions are now specified in boxes below each job category.
The new salary agreement catalogue has also been altered to make it easier for employees to navigate in it. For example, all local agreements at Health are now gathered at the back of the salary agreement catalogue as appendices and with links to the website.
The salary agreement catalogue came into force on 1 April 2020 and is valid until 31 March 2023. It covers academic and administrative staff whose salary and terms of employment are regulated by collective agreements between the Ministry of Finance and the multi-union collective agreement for Organisations of Public Employees – Denmark (State) and the AC collective agreement.
About Health's salary agreement catalogue
Health introduced the first salary agreement catalogue for members of academic staff in 2013. Since then, the catalogue has been expanded to also include technical and administrative staff, so that today the catalogue applies to the majority of employees at the faculty.
The salary agreement catalogue constitutes the framework for dialogue between the department management team and the union organisations authorised to negotiate. Pay formation has previously been inconsistent, which has led to both confusion and ambiguities. The salary agreement catalogue remedies this.
The purpose of the salary agreement catalogue is:
- To ensure that the employee salary within the given framework corresponds to the work performance of the individual employee;
- To create cohesion between strategy, personnel policy and salary;
- To support openness and visibility about the process, criteria and results in connection with pay formation;
- To emphasise equal treatment as employees with comparable functions and qualifications etc. must, as a general rule, attain the same salary level, regardless of organisational placement and the source of the payroll funds.
You can read more about salaries, rules and the relevant Danish Acts regarding employment on Health's website. Here, you can also find the salary agreement catalogue in both Danish and English.
Contact
HR Partner Annett Bülow Aagaard
Aarhus University, Health HR
Tel.: (+45) 8716 8359
Email: aba@au.dk