The shift work allowance is included in the base amount for calculating holiday allowance, the thirteenth month bonus, benefits during illness and incapacity for work and for the accrual of pension entitlements.
The holiday allowance specified in Article 9.1 of the CLA will be paid, at the option of your employer, either on the payment date stated in that Article or in the form of an increase of the cash compensation. Your employer will inform the employee of the method it has chosen.
The shift work allowance forms the basis for benefits for incapacity for work in the sense that this compensation is taken into account by adding it to the individual job salary.
For each year in which an employee is included in shift work or shifted working hours and in which they participate in a retirement pension scheme, they will qualify for an additional claim to retirement pension of 1.75% of the shift work allowance received in that year. Periods shorter than one year are neglected. Periods longer than one year will be rounded off downwards to a completed number of months. The same conditions are applicable to this pension scheme as to the pension scheme operative in the organisation. This pension scheme is exempted from the testing of pension scheme provisions included in Pension Protocols I to V as stated in Pension Protocol V. The same holds for the corresponding tests stated in the VUT arrangement, 3 Facilities and in Pension Protocol IV under 4, as well as in the pension protocol for Pension Provision 1998.