New uniform national pay structure for the pulp and paper industry

With this new nationally uniform collective agreement on pay, the parties to the collective agreement are jointly pursuing the goal of creating a modern collective agreement that is equally attractive for employees and companies in the paper and pulp industry. To this end, the IGBCE, the association DIE PAPIERINDUSTRIE and its seven regional employers' associations have been working intensively together on this task since the 2019 collective bargaining round.

By dissolving the previous regional distinctions between individual employee groups, this collective agreement creates a permeable pay structure. The employees thus have the opportunity to achieve new fields of activity within the scope of the company's possibilities through further qualification and expansion of competences. In all parts of the company, only the activity is the basis for classification in 13 successive pay groups.

The federal collective agreement on pay will come into force on 1 October 2022 and will be implemented in the next step in the nine collective bargaining districts of the pulp and paper industry. As soon as the implementation has been successfully completed in all collective bargaining districts, the new collective agreement will be introduced in the companies of the industry.