After more than two years of negotiations and an unprecedented health crisis, the LCGB and OGBL trade unions have signed a new collective agreement with the Federation of Luxembourg Hospitals (FHL) to cover about 9,000 employees in the medical sector.  (Photo: Luc Deflorenne/Ministry of Health/Archives)

After more than two years of negotiations and an unprecedented health crisis, the LCGB and OGBL trade unions have signed a new collective agreement with the Federation of Luxembourg Hospitals (FHL) to cover about 9,000 employees in the medical sector.  (Photo: Luc Deflorenne/Ministry of Health/Archives)

The purchasing power of hospital staff will increase: the new collective agreement signed in the hospital sector provides an improvement in several ways.

After more than two years of negotiations and an unprecedented health crisis, trade unions  and  have signed a new collective agreement with the (FHL), covering about 9,000 employees in the medical sector.

"This is a solid agreement, negotiated in a constructive climate despite the general context of the covid-19 pandemic, which has put a great deal of pressure on the hospital sector, the backbone of the Luxembourg health sector," the three parties stressed in a joint press release.


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The new provisions of this collective agreement, which comes into force retroactively on 1 January 2022 for a period of three years, will above all improve the purchasing power of employees in member establishments of the FHL. 

In addition, “the agreement provides for a retroactive bonus of 3.08% to be paid to all staff for the year 2021, reflecting the impact on the hospital sector of the measures taken in the public service," the joint statement said. The statement goes on to list a number of advances, such as: a doubling of the duty allowance, a linear increase of 5 points in several career categories, an increase in compensatory leave for employees working night shifts, an extension of social leave and a regulation on teleworking, in addition to many other specific and technical points.

"This new collective agreement also abolishes the C1 category for employees with manual skills without a diploma and integrates them into the C2 category, which has been upgraded by 5 index points. To put it simply, we can say that these employees will earn a little more than €100 gross per month, over a 13-month year [meaning an annual compensation plus a 13th month]", explained Pitt Bach, OGBL central secretary for the health sector and the social and educational services sector.

This story was first published in French on . It has been translated and edited for Delano.