Acceptable results in the new collective bargaining agreement

The renewal of the International School of Luxembourg (ISL) Employees’ collective bargaining agreement (CBA) was signed on 20 December 2012, after six negotiation meetings.

Under the auspices of OGBL, the trade unions OGBL and LCGB and the Human Resource Committee of the ISL Board of Governors worked round to the following results:

1. The 191 ISL-employees included in the CBA will benefit from:
   • a one-time payment of 950€ as of the date of signature of the agreement,
   • a flat monthly increase to all steps of the salary scales for the faculty members, nurses, assistants, administrative and technical staff members of 40€ (between 0,53% and 1,80% increase) as of September 2013,
   • a flat monthly increase to all steps of the salary scales for the faculty members, nurses, assistants, administrative and technical staff members of 25€ (between 0,33% and 1,11% increase) as of September 2014,
   • a simplification of the personal business day-granting procedure,
   • one additional day of leave for family reasons.
   • The 21 assistants will benefit of a 4 hour-increase of their weekly working hours (11,8%) and those who have achieved a qualification which includes at least two years of post-secondary study within a field of study directly related to the position will be placed on a new salary scale (between 4,05% and 8,00% increase).
2. The 20 administrative and technical staff members will receive lunch vouchers for one more month.
3. During the School’s Winter break, the 4 technical staff members will be granted collective leave.
4. Twice each academic year, 45 minutes of the weekly staff meeting will be devoted to the business of the Staff Association as determined by the Staff Delegation.
5. The Staff Delegation will be associated to the organization of the election of the faculty member on the board of governors and during the election a staff delegate, appointed by the staff delegation will be a member of the electoral office and participate in the ballot counting.

The new agreement has a term of three years, effective 1 September 2012 until 31 August 2015.

The negotiation took place in fair climate. The agreement was signed by the representatives of the Board of Governors and Danièle Nieles, general secretary SEW/OGBL, the OGBL delegates Ralf Gehlen, Matthew Dwyer, Walt Lilyblad, as well as Céline Conter, union secretary LCGB, and the LCGB delegates Luc Kouba, JoAnne Cordne and Heng Schreiner.

Reported by SEW/OGBL
on 21 December 2012