Employment regulations: CAO, IR and pension

CAO-OI

The Collective Labour Agreement Research Institutes (CAO-OI) contains agreements about employment conditions, including salary and leave days, which must be taken into consideration in the individual employment agreement. The CAO-OI 2024-2025 (English version) is be available on the WVOI website and at the bottom of this webpage. The new salary tables can be consulted on the WVOI-website (in Dutch only).

Final agreement Collective Labour Agreement Research Institutes (CAO-OI) 2024-2025 On 17 July 2024, the WVOI and employee organisations FNV, CNV and AOb converted the previously reached negotiation result on a new collective agreement (CAO-OI) into a final collective agreement. The new collective agreement will run from 1 July 2024 to 30 September 2025.

IR

The NWO Implementing Regulations (IR) contains agreements on employment conditions, including travel reimbursement and other allowances, which are not regulated in the CAO-OI. In addition, the IR contains schemes such as a complaints procedure or the conduct of an interview between supervisor and employee. The IR applies to both NWO and NWO-I employees and can be downloaded as a pdf at the bottom of this page.

Agreement on adaptation of NWO Implementing Regulations following interim negotiation A delegation of the Central Works Council (COR) and NWO employers consulted on interim adjustments to the NWO Implementing Regulations (IR) 2023-2025, in line with the agreement in the NWO Implementing Regulations. The main topic of discussion was the modernisation of the staff interviews scheme (the R&O interviews). The COR and the director agreed on the adjustments to the regulations in the consultation meeting of 10 September 2024. The adjustments are detailed below this grey border. The UVR appendix at the bottom of this page includes in the text the changes agreed with the Central Works Council in the interim from 1 September 2024. For the new UVR 10 The Dialogue, an implementation phase applies. This means that until the new system has been rolled out, UVR 1 from the UVR NWO 2023-2025 that applied before 1 September still holds.

Staff interviews scheme (IR 10)

The four different regulations at NWO-D and NWO-I have been harmonised into a new staff interview regulation called The Dialogue.

The new scheme supports a continuous dialogue between supervisor and employee in which the development of the employee and employees contribution to the organisational objectives are central. Manager and employee jointly own their dialogue. The new method abandons the classic assessment with an appraisal score.

Implementation of the new method will start this autumn. Attention will be paid to clear communication and support, including training and information for managers and employees to start working with the new method. The first interviews according to the new methodology are expected to be held in early 2025.

 Whistleblower regulation (IR 14)

The whistleblower regulation was adapted to European regulations and subsequent Dutch legislation in which, among other things, the abuses about which the whistle can be blown were expanded and the legal protection of whistleblowers was improved.

 Height of the compensation amounts included in the IR

The main adjustment concerns the increase in the amounts that can be used in AVOM for a bicycle for commuting. The amounts have been increased from €750 and €1,500 to €1,000 and €2,000. Furthermore, the moving allowance has been increased and the low allowance for travel by private car has been raised from 10 cents to 11 cents.

IR 1

• Article 3 paragraph 1: The low mileage allowance for travel by private transport for commuting has been increased from 10 cents to 11 cents per kilometre. As of 1 January 2025, the ‘high’ mileage allowance goes to the tax maximum allowance amount applicable as of that date .
• Article 6: The amount (gross salary and/or holiday hours) that can be used for the bicycle has been increased from a maximum of €750.00 to €1,000.00 for the employee who has a one-way commuting distance up to and including 7.5 kilometres. For the employee who has a one-way commuting distance of more than 7.5 kilometres, the amount (gross salary and/or holiday hours) has been increased from a maximum of €1,500.00 to €2,000.00.

IR 2

• Article 2 paragraph 7: The low mileage allowance for business travel by private transport has been increased from 10 cents to 11 cents per kilometre.

IR 3

• Article 4 paragraph 2: The amounts for the allowance for transport costs have been increased by 20%.
• The amount for the allowance for redeployment costs for incoming employees has been increased to €2,450.

ABP pension

For information about your ABP pension we refer you to this page on pensions on our website.