New collective labor agreement for local radio stations in French-speaking Switzerland
Employees at several local radio stations in western Switzerland will receive more vacations and better compensation for night work. However, wages are stagnating overall. The journalists' association Impressum and the group of Radios régionales romandes (RRR) have agreed on these key points in a new collective labor agreement (CLA).
The adjustment to the collective labor agreement, which dates back to 2008, was necessary, according to a joint press release issued by the social partners on Tuesday. From 2025, employees will have five weeks' vacation, compared to four weeks previously. People aged 50 and over will have six weeks' vacation in future. Night work will be compensated by 15 percent in the form of working hours.
Slower wage development
On the other hand, wage prospects are deteriorating. The pay scale has been extended from 15 to 25 years. Wage development will therefore be slower.
For example, an employee will be able to claim a monthly salary of around 7200 francs after ten years of work, compared to around 7500 francs previously. The only salary increase is at the last level of the scale, after 19 years of work, with the maximum salary rising from 8,000 to 8,300. The annual automatic inflation adjustment will be reduced from two percent to one percent.
"The impact on wage development is regrettable," said Impressum Managing Director Urs Thalmann on request. The professional association assures that it will make sure to negotiate the inflation adjustment upwards if inflation should exceed one percent. It also points out that better wages in editorial offices are still desirable.
The heads of the radio stations in the RRR Group were convinced that the new CLA would guarantee "attractive framework conditions" for employees. In particular, the wage policy serves to "promote the preservation of jobs" in a complicated environment for the media. (SDA/swi)