PostNL and the trade unions BVPP, CNV and FNV have announced a new collective labor agreement (CLA) for 15,000 mail deliverers that will run until December 31, 2025.
The CLA includes a new pay structure, which incorporates the recent increase in the legal minimum wage. The new structure has five scales and reflects the work experience built up by mail deliverers. The deal envisages four pay increases during the new CLA, the last of which will take effect on July 1, 2025. By that date, mail deliverers’ pay will have added at least 19% relative to December, 31 2023.
In addition to these pay rises, the negotiators agreed to raise pay for 16- and 17-year-olds, to end youth wages from age 18, and to grant various benefits and monthly payment of the holiday allowance to new mail deliverers.
Maurice Unck, PostNL‘s director of mail in the Netherlands, said, “From voting cards in elections to season’s greetings in December, receiving mail remains vitally important to a great many people – and our mail deliverers play a pivotal part in this. That’s why I’m delighted we have an outcome that reflects appreciation for the important work they do. An outcome that should make a job as a mail deliverer more attractive in today’s tight labor market.
“Despite the challenging conditions facing our postal business, all mail deliverers can count on better employment terms and conditions as well as a pay rise – with extra attention focused on the large group of people who have been with us for many years.”
The trade unions will now put the outcome to their membership, with results of that consultation expected to be announced by mid-April.