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Stone and ceramic industry / Brief overview

Brief overview of the collective agreement

editorial note Source: Gewerkschaft Bau - Holz


Blue-collar workers / white-collar workers
Blue-collar workers


Applicable in
Austria


In force since
1 May 2023


Results of the latest round of negotiations
  • Increase of minimum wages under the collective agreement and apprenticeship pay by 9.8%
  • Actual wages: Increase by 9.7%


Minimum wage / minimum salary
  • Simple tasks: EUR 10.32 to EUR 13.43
  • Tasks requiring qualification: from EUR 10.32 to EUR 15.07
  • Tasks requiring high qualification: from EUR 10.38 to EUR 15.97


Apprenticeship pay
Concrete and prefabricated products industry / cement industry / brick-making and prefabricated products industry
1st year of apprenticeship: EUR 6.42
2nd year of apprenticeship: EUR 9.62
3rd year of apprenticeship: EUR 12.83
4th year of apprenticeship: EUR 14.44
Lime, gypsum, chalk, crushed stone, sand, gravel, silica sand and ready-mixed concrete industries, raw clay pits, kaolin plants / Upper Austrian hardstone industry / hardstone industry in the Waldviertel region
1st year of apprenticeship: EUR 6.37
2nd year of apprenticeship: EUR 9.56
3rd year of apprenticeship: EUR 12.74
4th year of apprenticeship: EUR 14.33
Salzburg marble industry
1st year of apprenticeship: EUR 6.55
2nd year of apprenticeship: EUR 9.83
3rd year of apprenticeship: EUR 13.10
4th year of apprenticeship: EUR 14.74
Manufacturers of refractory and electroceramics (Burgenland, Lower Austria)
1st year of apprenticeship: EUR 6.08
2nd year of apprenticeship: EUR 9.11
3rd year of apprenticeship: EUR 12.15
Manufacturers of electrotechnical porcelain (Styria)
1st year of apprenticeship: EUR 6.06
2nd year of apprenticeship: EUR 9.10
3rd year of apprenticeship: EUR 12.13
Manufacturers of electrotechnical porcelain (Tyrol)
1st year of apprenticeship: EUR 5.70
2nd year of apprenticeship: EUR 8.56
3rd year of apprenticeship: EUR 11.41
Manufacturers of decorative ceramics
1st year of apprenticeship: EUR 4.54
2nd year of apprenticeship: EUR 6.80
3rd year of apprenticeship: EUR 9.07


Supplements and allowances
e.g. supplements for night hours


Working time
The
regular working time is 38,5 hours per week
.
Overtime supplement
: usually 50%, during specified times 100%.


Notice periods
Notice period according to the length of the employee’s employment period with the company:
  • Employee
    : daily as of the end of the working day to eight weeks
  • Employer
    : daily as of the end of the working day to eight weeks


Please note: Expiry of claims
Please note that any and all claims arising from the employment relationship with the employer
lapse within nine months
unless asserted verbally or in writing. If payment is claimed in time, a three-year limitation period applies.


Other results achieved regarding socio-political aspects
e.g.
  • Special payments: Christmas bonus (
    Weihnachtsgeld
    ) and annual leave bonus (
    Urlaubszuschuss
    ).
  • Protection against termination of employment according to Section 15 of the Maternity Protection Act (
    Mutterschutzgesetz, MSchG
    ) is extended to the term of entitlement to childcare benefit laid down by federal laws.