Banks: so Far, no sufficient offer of the employer

GPA-djp calling Austria-wide BR-a conference for 12. March

Vienna (OTS) – The negotiations on collective agreements for about 73,000 employees in the Austrian banking industry also brought yesterday, on 7. March no result. „Neither in terms of the percentage of the frame right there were offers of employers, which are our expectations,“ says the Negotiator of the GPA-djp, Wolfgang Pischinger.

„The economic figures of the banks are currently outstanding and there is no reason that the employees of the credit economy with a lower salary increase than other industries in the last few months. The officially confirmed annual income of the industry amounted to 5.7 billion and is a historical record profit and no one understands why the workers should not benefit from it,“ said Pischinger.

Since the number of employees gradually, in comparison to 2008, a decrease of 8.3 %, and generates, in turn, in the case of the remaining employees, a massive work pressure and leads to a huge amount of work compression. The same power, or more power must, thus, be less and less by the employees mastered“, the GPA-djp Negotiator.

In addition to a salary increase, is the economic circumstances of the industry, calls for the GPA-djp is also the legal improvements, such as easier access of the 6. Week of vacation, the right to choose between money and time for all the More – and Overtime, and 150 % bonus for the 11. and 12. Hour of work.

11. March is the third KV round of Negotiations. It should come to no agreement, on April 12. March an Austria-wide operating instead of councillors meeting, to decide on further industrial action.

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