The talks on pension stranded – NRK

In the morning hours Wednesday were the trade unions and employers’ association Spectrum agreed to disagree on plans for Norwegian cultural workers.

This means that a decision in the case is postponed indefinitely.

– We have ended in a standstill between the parties, which we can not agree unless someone bråombestemmer themselves. And I see no hope, says LO Stats negotiator Eivind Gran.

NEGOTIATED FOR THE EMPLOYEES: Eivind Gran LO Stat.

Photo: Bjørn Sigurdsøn / NTB scanpix

– When will you talk again?

– In the most extreme can stalemate last until next year’s main settlement, he said.

Costly benefit pensions

The great controversy theme is the kind of board employees to have. Today cultural institutions a defined benefit plan, in which all risk is with the employer.

In an era of low interest rates and returns are such an arrangement particularly expensive because companies must contribute more to ensure the pension level.

The employer therefore wish to discontinue this performance with a pension for them more predictable contribution plan.

The unions say no to this. They have instead offered a hybrid system, where risks are shared between employers and employees.

– Our demand for hybrid pension gives a pretty huge savings in the sector. Today’s defined benefit pension plan is like animals in one year as four years of hybrid pension, says Eivind Gran.

Can mean no wage

Communications Director Gunnar Larsen in Spectrum have the same description of reality as Gran LO Stat.

– The distance is that workers envisages a hybrid solution, while we want a deposit model that ensures good pensions for employees and a needed predictability for businesses in a perspective of decades previously, says Larsen.

He emphasizes that negotiations are not broken, but that it is not agreed any further negotiation process.

– In extreme cases it may mean that there will be no wage increases in the sector this year, says Larsen .