WP RR 17 - Industrial relations in the transport sector in the Netherlands

national legislation should be granted regarding the average 48 working hours per week,
with a maximum of 60 hours per week (including waiting time). A 30 minute break
should be taken after six hours of work, or a 45 minute break after in between six and
nine hours of work (Euro-online, April 2002). This notification implies that in the years
to come the maximum in working hours will be dealt with by the Dutch government and
collective bargaining actors, that may regulate derogations from the European directive
regarding technical, objective and organizational reasons, as well as about the concept of
waiting hours that is differently defined in the Dutch and European regulation.

4.4 Collective bargaining in aviation

In aviation no sectoral agreement exists, collective bargaining is a matter of enterprise
agreements. In Table 7 an overview is provided of the collective wage agreements in
aviation and their signatories, the labour unions. In addition to the enterprise agreements,
a bipartite sectoral council for aviation has been established, in which the employers
KLM, Martinair and Transavia co-operate with FNV Bondgenoten, CNV Bedrijvenbond,
De Unie and VNC (Sectorraad Burgerluchtvaart, 2000).

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