Collective Bargaining Agreement – Welfare and Educational Institutions

This registered collective bargaining agreement for the welfare and educational institutions sector replaces the February–December 2023 agreement and runs from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024, with a commitment to review it if macro-economic fundamentals move materially.

Wages are denominated in US dollars. The NGO sector must continue to pay salaries in US dollars, while other sectors may pay in US dollars or the local-currency equivalent in line with S.I. 185 of 2020. NEC levies and union dues follow the same currency treatment, and where deducted in local currency and paid late are settled at the prevailing bank rate on the date of remittance.

The schedule sets six pay columns by employer type. The highest is NGOs, running from US$445,20 at grade A1 to US$1 049,76 at C2 and US$1 397,23 at C5. Independent A trust schools and mission boarding schools run from US$360,62 at A1 to US$647,62 at C5. Welfare C institutions, independent B private schools, mission hospitals, clinics and day schools run from US$314,47 to US$564,75. Welfare A, rural and trust ECDs and private colleges run from US$277,04 to US$497,53. Welfare B, home schools and religious presbyteries, convents and churches run from US$257,17 to US$461,85. The lowest column — urban ECDs, Welfare D, independent boarding and day schools, tertiary institutions and religious administrative offices — runs from US$235,87 to US$423,59.

A housing allowance of US$130 and a transport allowance of US$80 apply across every column.

The agreement sets minimum conditions only: workplace negotiations to improve on it are permitted, and an employee who has not completed 12 months of service is paid at least the minimum for their occupation in the appropriate part of the schedule.