That said the negotiator for around 73,000 bank employees and Oberbank central works council chairman Wolfgang Pischinger on Tuesday evening. Apprentices also receive a linear increase of 3.5 percent, i.e. across all wages and salary components that can be valued. For young people who do their apprenticeship with a high school diploma, there are now five days of paid learning leave per apprenticeship year.
“We struggled on both sides,” admitted Pischinger. “I guess no one is satisfied.” Responding to the fact that this did not sound euphoric, the employee representative said: “We have a record year behind us – with an annual profit after tax of 6.5 billion euros. And at the very time when we start negotiations, the Ukraine crisis starts. “
As has been widely reported, the Ukraine crisis is throwing the industry upside down. Raiffeisenbank International (RBI) is heavily involved in Russia and is now even considering withdrawing from the market due to the sanctions. General effects affect the entire banking landscape. So the deposit insurance has to lift 913 million euros because of the Sberbank in Vienna.
When asked whether he couldn’t understand the concerns of the employers, Pischinger said that negotiations were basically for the past year, “actually not about things that might still happen this year”. This applies to the high profit, but also to the inflation, which was assumed to be 2.8 percent, which is comparatively low compared to the current values.
The employers recently offered an increase of 2.6 percent plus 12.50 euros. However, the employee representatives were not satisfied with this. Now you have to the plus 3.25 percent – “plagued”.
Source: Nachrichten
