Wage revolution in cleaning: 3.8% more from 2025 for 54,000 employees!

Wage revolution in cleaning: 3.8% more from 2025 for 54,000 employees!

In a crucial breakthrough for over 54,000 employees in the monument, facade and building cleaning in Austria, an agreement on the collective agreement was reached. From January 1, 2025, the wages will increase by 3.8 percent, which corresponds to the full value of inflation and thus raises the minimum wage to just under EUR 2,080 gross per month, as 5min.at . Particularly noteworthy is the increase for apprentices who are now starting at 1,028 euros in the first year of apprenticeship - an increase of 6.5 percent.

In addition, a long -term plan to reduce wage groups was decided from six to four to 2027, which benefits from employees with lower incomes. At a time when numerous women, including many migrants, work part -time, Ursula Wardetschka from the Vida union said: "With more full -time in this strongly female industry, we can make it that more women can live from their income." The new regulation also includes a reduction of six months in almost all areas except hotel cleaning, which should lead to the number of full -time positions increasing.

wage increase for low and middle earners

As early as January 1, 2024, around 95 percent of employees in the lower and medium -sized income groups benefit from a wage increase of 9.2 percent. A significant success of the collective agreement is to achieve the gross wage of 2,000 euros per month, as Monika Rosensteiner, the KV negotiation manager. It emphasizes the increase in real wages and the compensation of the costs caused by inflation for the employees who work primarily. These measures are a vital step because the inflation in these wage groups can be felt particularly strongly, says Rosensteiner.