NEW COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT FOR I-AGREEMENT
(IN SWEDISH I-AVTALET, FORMER ALLOCHEMICAL INDUSTRY)
IKEM – Innovation and Chemical Employers has entered into a new one-year
agreement with IF Metall.
Within the framework of the Industry agreement, on 31 Mars 2016, IKEM has entered into a new
collective agreement with IF Metall. This agreement replaces the agreement for Allochemical
industry, Leather- and Sports article industry agreement and Stone industry agreement. The new
name for the collective agreement is in Swedish I-avtalet.
The agreement enters into force on 1 April 2016 and runs until the end of
March 2017. Briefly, the agreement involves the following.
The new collective agreement has essentially the same content as the previous agreement for
Allochemical industry. For other industries (i.e the stone industry) that change collective agreement,
the parties have negotiated transitional rules that apply until 30 June 2019. Companies with former
Allochemical collective agreement enters into the new agreement on 1 April 2016. For companies in
Leather- and Sports article industry and Stone industry the agreement shall enter into force on 1 July
2016 when the former collective agreements expires.
COST INCREASE
The salary agreement entails that wages in 2016 will increase by a value equivalent to 2.0 percent
based on the sector average wage. For 2016, this means that wage cost are 514.50 SEK/month on
average per worker. In addition, it is agreed that 0.2 percent of extended allocation to the partial
pension introduced in 2013. The total cost increase of the agreement is 2.2 percent for the contract
period.
Partial pension
Additional allocation to the partial pension of 0.2 percent from 1 April 2016. The partial pension
introduced in 2013, is now for a total allocation of 1.3 percent per calendar year.
Wage
The construction of the salary agreement is the same as previously and based on that the wage
process is being local, at a company level.
If the local parties do not agree otherwise, raised wages from April 1, 2016 by 514.50 SEK/month
(2.94 SEK/hour).
If local agreement on distribution cannot be reached, 75 percent of the above is generally distributed
for 2016, 386.75 SEK/month (2.21 SEK/hour). The remaining 25 percent is distributed by the
employer within the framework of the existing payroll system or, if these not exist, according to the
agreement wage principles.
Minimum monthly pay
The agreement's minimum monthly pay is as follows:
Employee's minimum
monthly pay in SEK with
effect from
1/4 2016
Age 18+
20 755
New employees 3 months
17 642
Age under 18
13 906
The agreement blocks after 1 and 2 years of employment are not raised but remain at SEK 600 and
SEK 1000 after pay adjustment each year.
Employees with 1 or 2 years of employment in the company who have acquired increased
competence in the form of experience and professional knowledge shall after pay adjustment have a
monthly pay that exceeds the stated minimum monthly pay by the amount below:


If the employee has worked for a year April 1, 2016, 21.355 SEK per month
If the employee has worked at least two years April 1, 2016, 21.755 SEK per month
New hourly-pay appendix
Since companies almost exclusively uses monthly salary as a wage form, all amounts and regulations
that only applies to workers who are hourly waged have moved to a separate hourly-pay appendix.
The rules for hourly wages are now found in Appendix 3.
Minimum hourly pay
The agreement's minimum hourly rate is as follows:
Employee's hourly rate in SEK with effect
from
1/4 2016
Age 18+
118,60
New employees 3 months
100,81
Age under 18
79,46
The agreement blocks after 1 and 2 years of employment are not raised but remain at SEK 3,43 and
SEK 5.71 respectively after pay adjustment each year.
The agreement's other remuneration
The agreement's other remunerations are raised by the value of the agreement, i.e. 2.2 percent on 1
April 2016. A complete review of the new amounts may be found at the end of this summary under
agreement period.
WORKING HOURS AGREEMENT
Clarification of the application of the weekly rest provisions
To develop the agreement, the parties have agreed on a clarification of the working hours agreement
regarding the rules on weekly rest. In brief, the weekly rest provisions should be handled in the
following manner:
Deviations from the weekly rest time and compensating rest
The main rule is that the employee must have at least 36 uninterrupted hours of weekly rest for a
defined seven-day period. From them main rule there can be deviations, meaning a shorter weekly
rest period than 36 hours may be given, under certain specified circumstances. If deviations are
made, the employee must be given compensating rest for the next seven-day period and shall be
given coherently with the next weekly rest, which is thereby extended. The length of the
compensating rest shall correspond to the number of hours that remains from the longest period of
rest during the weekly rest period and up to 36 hours.
For example, if the weekly rest period is limited so that the longest rest period is 24 hours over a
seven-day period, this must be compensated during the next seven-day period with 12 extra hours of
rest (36-24 = 12). The following weekly rest is therefore extended from 36 to 48 hours.
The clarification above is done because there is an incorrect interpretation that an interrupted
weekly rest should always be compensated with 36 new hours, which would provide an
uninterrupted weekly rest period of 72 hours. The interpretation is therefore incorrect. New 36
hours may of course be relevant if the employee is not able to get any weekly rest at all during the 7day period, which may be the case for example during stand-by duty.
Circumstances which allows deviation from 36-hour weekly rest
The circumstances which allows deviation from the weekly rest remains and concern the following
situations:
1. When establishing shift schedules with local agreement weekly rest periods can, in some cases
be limited to a minimum of 24 hours. Since the deviation in this case is based on that the local
parties agree to get such an agreement, it is deemed to have fully taken into care the
compensating rest for up to 36 hours.
2. Employer can unilaterally make deviations down to at least 30 continuous hours of weekly rest to
be able to establish efficient shift schedules concerning continuous shift work, and for on-call
and stand-by duty and overtime work.
3. Deviation can always be made by local agreement.
4. Deviations may also be made temporarily if it is caused by some special circumstance that the
employer could not have foreseen, for example unplanned shift changes or overtime.
5. Deviations can be made at Relief work
All deviations except point 1 above requires that the employee shall be given compensating rest.
NEW AMOUNTS FOR THE AGREEMENT PERIOD 01-04-2016 TO 31-03-2017
§ 3 Wages
Item 2:1
The agreement´s minimum pay is as follows:
Employee's minimum monthly pay in SEK
with effect from
1/4 2016
Aged 18+
20 755
New employees 3 months
17 642
Age under 18
13 906
Employees with 1 or 2 years of employment in the company who have acquired increased
competence in the form of experience and professional knowledge shall after pay adjustment have a
monthly pay that exceeds the stated minimum monthly pay by the amount below:
1/4 2016
After 1 year of employment
600
After 2 years of employment
1000
§ 4 Supplement for inconvenient and displaced working hours etc.
Item 1 Supplement for inconvenient working hours
Evening and night work with effect from:
1/4 2016
From 18.00 to 06.00, unless a higher amount is
stated below
39,95
Sundays and holidays with effect from:
From 06.00 Saturday and
18.00 the day before a public holiday to
06.00 the day after Sunday or a public holiday,
unless a higher amount is stated below
62,22
Major public holidays with effect from
From 06.00 New Year's Eve
To 06.00 2 January
From 18.00 Maundy Thursday
to 06.00 the Tuesday after Easter
From 06.00 1 May
To 06.00 2 May
From 06.00 the Saturday before Whit Sunday
to 06.00 the day after Whit Sunday
From 06.00 National Day
to 06.00 the day after National Day
From 06.00 Midsummer Eve
to 06.00 the day after Midsummer Day
From 06.00 Christmas Eve
to 06.00 the day after Boxing Day
124,28
Item 2 Supplement for displacement of normal working hours
Supplement for displacement of normal
working hours with effect from
1/4 2016
Supplement in SEK
34,39
§ 5 Overtime etc.
Item 4 Attendance compensation
1/4 2016
Weekdays
162
Friday, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays
206
Item 5 Duoble shift compensation
1/4 2016
Further full shift completed
206
Item 6 Compensation for overtime at weekends
1/4 2016
Call-out during both Saturday and Sunday
326
§ 6 Stand-by duty
Item 2
Employees on stand-by duty are compensated per hour as follows (SEK per hour):
Weekdays
Monday - Friday, unless a higher amount is
stated below
1/4 2016
11,06
Sunday and holidays with effect from:
From 07.00 Saturday to 07.00 Monday or 19.00
the day before a public holiday to 07.00 the day
after the holiday, unless a higher amount is
stated below
26,94
Major public holidays with effect from:
From 07.00 New Year's Eve
to 07.00 2 January
From 19.00 Maundy Thursday
to 07.00 the Tuesday after Easter
From 07.00 1 May
to 07.00 2 May
From 07.00 the Saturday before Whit Sunday
to 07.00 the day after Whit Sunday
From 07.00 National Day
to 07.00 the day after National Day
From 07.00Midsummer
to 07.00 the day after Midsummer Day
From 07.00 Christmas Eve
to 07.00 the day after Boxing Day
53,86
§ 9 Vacations
Item 6 Vacation pay guarantee
1/4 2016
Age 18+
1 362
Age under 18
1 022
Appendix 3 Special rules for hourly paid
§ 1 wage
Mom 1:1 Minimum hourly rate
The agreemenst´s minimum hourly rate is as follows:
Employee´s hourly rate in SEK with effect
from
1/4 2016
Age 18+
118,60
New employees 3 months
100,81
Aged under 18
79,46
Employees with 1 or 2 years of employment in the company who have acquired increased
competence in the form of experience and professional knowledge shall after pay
adjustment have an hourly rate that exceeds the stated minimum hourly rate by the amount
below:
1/4 2016
After 1 year of employment
3,43
After 2 years of employment
5,71