Teachers in secondary education will receive a structural salary increase of 4.75 percent from 1 July 2022. Employers and education unions came to that agreement on Wednesday in a new collective labor agreementwhich will apply until 1 May 2023. Agreements have also been made about how to spend the 300 million euros that will be made available annually to relieve work pressure.
Henk Hagoort, the chairman of the VO-raad, the association of secondary schools, says that the negotiations were “tough”, but he is “extremely happy” with a “good result”. Minister for Primary and Secondary Education Dennis Wiersma (VVD) also calls it “not an easy process”, but he is “glad that this collective labor agreement has been reached”.
In the coming year, 150 million euros will be spent on, among other things, hiring extra support staff who can supervise or supervise children. The other 150 million euros will go to ‘task relief’ for teachers in the coming year – they will get more free hours that they can spend on, for example, preparing lessons.
In the coming weeks, the collective labor agreement will be presented to the rank and file of the negotiating parties. If the response is positive, the agreements will be included in the collective labor agreement for secondary education.
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