Periodic salary increase. Standard increase after appraisal
1. An employee who has not yet reached the maximum salary of their salary scale yet, can qualify for a salary increase every year after having been appraised on the basis of pre-set criteria.
2. If the employee is not appraised on the basis of pre-set criteria, the standard increase shall be assigned every year, with effect from 1 January (or another date to be established in local consultation) until the maximum salary for the job level in question has been reached.
3. If an employee is absent for a long period and cannot be appraised as a result, no standard increase shall be applied unless the Minimum Wage Act (Wet minimumloon) applies (article 11.3).
4. If an employee is absent for a long period and cannot be appraised as a result, no standard increase shall be applied unless scales for apprentice journalists or novice journalists (job category of Newspaper Journalists) apply (article 13.3 and article 13.4) or apprentice scales (job category of Free Local Newspaper Journalists: article 16.5).
Periodic salary increase. Standard increase after appraisal
1. An employee who has not yet reached the maximum salary of their salary scale can qualify for a salary
2. If the employee is not appraised on the basis of a system recognised by the parties to the collective labour agreement, the standard increase shall be assigned every year, with effect from 1 January (or another date to be established in local consultation) until the maximum salary for the job level in question has been reached.
3. If an employee is absent for a long period and cannot be appraised as a result, no standard increase shall be applied unless age scales (job category of Book and Magazine Publishing) or initial scales (job category of Newspaper Publishing) apply (article 11.3 or resp. article 12.4).
4. If an employee is absent for a long period and cannot be appraised as a result, no standard increase shall be applied unless scales for apprentice journalists or novice journalists (job category of Newspaper Journalists) apply (article 13.3 and article 13.4).
Periodic salary increase a. Each year, the employer will conduct a performance review with the employee.
b. In the case of a neutral or positive review, a periodic increase will be granted until the maximum of the relevant scale has been reached.
c. The periodic increase within the salary scale will become effective each time on the first day of the month in which the employee entered employment or on the date on which the employee was promoted or placed in a new position.
d. By way of derogation from the provisions in paragraph (c), the employer may set the effective date of the increment at 1 January of any year, provided that the effective date of the increment does not fall more than one year after the effective date of the previous increment. If the employer exercises this option, it will apply it to all employees.
e. If no performance review has been held, the employer will be obliged to award the next increment in the scale after the period referred to in paragraph (c) or (d) has expired.
