Employers: CLA retrenchment and little room for wage increases this year | Inland

That is the CLA commitment of employers’ organizations AWVN, MKB-Nederland and VNO-NCW for this year. “For companies under pressure, this can mean a zero line,” they state in their employment conditions memorandum that will be published on Monday. “Even retrenchment of employment conditions cannot be ruled out.”

“2021 will be a turbulent year. The uncertainty for companies is very great ”, says AWVN director Raymond Puts. “At the moment there are still support measures, but how solid will the foundation be if the support is phased out and tax has to be paid again?” He expects the average wage increase to go ‘towards 1 percent’, which is lower than the forecast price increases.

According to AWVN, many employers are in trouble because they were unable to respond adequately to the crisis. They therefore argue for the introduction of crisis clauses, whereby companies only pay the collective labor agreement wage increase if sufficient profit is made.

“In the sectors where things are going badly, we really have to start thinking about unorthodox measures,” said Puts. “If employers have learned one thing from this crisis, it is that working conditions must be able to respond better. In bad and good times. ”

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