Our President Lucille: “It`s great that this collective agreement has created a space to help PhD students and researchers on fixed-term contracts when they are delayed as a result of the Covid 19 crisis. It is also positive that the ombudsman function has a stable place within universities. I hope that this will lead to greater social security within universities. This is certainly important for PhD students, as they are in a vulnerable and dependent position. “Universities and trade unions have jointly launched a `public-friendly` version of the global employment contract. This website offers a general overview of the entire employment contract and clearly contains the most important information about the conditions of employment. Sectoral Regulation on Disputes for Dutch Universities 2020 Last Friday, 5 June, the social partners reached a final agreement on the UN-CAO. The new CAO-NU will run from January 1, 2020 to January 1, 2021. The main features of the CAO-NU agreement are listed below: the amount of staff costs to be financed can be included in the pay tables of the Association of Dutch Universities (Dutch acronym VSNU).

The salary scales were agreed in the scientific research funding agreement and are based on the collective agreement (caO) of Dutch universities. The CLA 2017-2019 version can be accessed via this link: www.labouragreementuniversities.nl/. The information relating to the collective agreement provided on this website is not exhaustive, so it is not possible to deduce rights from it. If you want to read the full text of the Collective Agreement of dutch universities (CAD NU), you can download it completely or click on the hyperlinks to view the corresponding CAD articles. The allowances and benefits agreed with the trade unions are defined in the collective agreement of the Dutch universities. The CAONU (the latest version of the global employment contract), valid from 1 January 202o, can be downloaded via the menu on the right. The text of the final collective agreement (only in Dutch) can be found here. The approval of funding for scientific research defines the mutual obligations concerning staff recruited by the institutions to carry out research funded by the Netherlands Research Council (NWO, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek). These are based on the collective agreements of the VSNU (for universities) and NFU (for academic medical centers). . . .