You get paid for your lunch break as well. And you get paid more than in Sweden. Maybe that’s the bribe for needing to live in Denmark 😛
But you don’t have any individual salary discussions whatsoever? We also love our kollektivavtal, but you still usually get a certain percentage that’s to be split around the employees… and there’s nothing hindering you from negotiating higher outside of these discussions; if my raise was decided to be 3%, I could still talk to my boss a couple weeks later and say I want an additional 10% or I’m quitting. There’s nothing union-related that’d block him doing that.
But it’s still usually best to hop to a new place after a couple years, if numbers are the biggest factor for you.
I am new in this. Been at it for just over a year and only just got a full time, no end contract in February so I don’t feel like I can press too hard. I feel like I pressed pretty hard to get the contract so I’ll let it rest for now.
The EU ion actually told me that any wage negotiation needs to go through the representative at the organization but they feel like I could be eligible for a higher pay even though I am not officially (don’t have enough experience on the field but I am good at it, have had no sick days and have multiple years experience from a similar job that uses a different union so it does not officially count as experience)
I feel like the union has been a bit limiting for my situation although know they are there to protect me. It’s just not very flexible and maybe built around fairly rigid and predefined stereotypical employee lifestyles
You get paid for your lunch break as well. And you get paid more than in Sweden. Maybe that’s the bribe for needing to live in Denmark 😛
But you don’t have any individual salary discussions whatsoever? We also love our kollektivavtal, but you still usually get a certain percentage that’s to be split around the employees… and there’s nothing hindering you from negotiating higher outside of these discussions; if my raise was decided to be 3%, I could still talk to my boss a couple weeks later and say I want an additional 10% or I’m quitting. There’s nothing union-related that’d block him doing that.
But it’s still usually best to hop to a new place after a couple years, if numbers are the biggest factor for you.
I am new in this. Been at it for just over a year and only just got a full time, no end contract in February so I don’t feel like I can press too hard. I feel like I pressed pretty hard to get the contract so I’ll let it rest for now.
The EU ion actually told me that any wage negotiation needs to go through the representative at the organization but they feel like I could be eligible for a higher pay even though I am not officially (don’t have enough experience on the field but I am good at it, have had no sick days and have multiple years experience from a similar job that uses a different union so it does not officially count as experience)
I feel like the union has been a bit limiting for my situation although know they are there to protect me. It’s just not very flexible and maybe built around fairly rigid and predefined stereotypical employee lifestyles