Wage and salary collective agreement
A wage and salary collective agreement is a special form of a collective agreement in German labor law .
In addition to generally in the collective agreement ordered general conditions of employment (vacation, sick leave, termination, etc.) determines the salary collective agreement, the specific amount of compensation for the working conditions in its scope .
To this end, the wage and salary collective agreement specifies the job evaluation procedure to be used , with which different activities are assigned to abstractly defined remuneration groups or wage groups depending on the level of requirements , and the amount of remuneration for the respective remuneration groups. In some cases, a differentiation is made according to years of employment or seniority in order to take into account the experience or loyalty of an employee ; Light wage groups that were common in the past and were primarily intended for women are now generally inadmissible.
For the individual employment relationship, it must be determined in the company to which pay group it is to be assigned. In this " grouping of according to the regulations - is" - so available Works Constitution Act the works council to participate.
Collective wages are minimum wages. It is not allowed to deviate from them downwards, provided that the collective agreement is mandatory for the employment relationship. This is the case with mutual association membership of the employment contract parties or in the case of a general binding declaration . Exceeding the collective wage in the individual employment contract is quite permissible within the framework of the favorability principle .
The term of the wage and salary collective agreement is usually shorter than that of the associated general collective agreement (often one year).
