New agreements for employees in regions and municipalities

At the end of February 2024, we have reached an agreement on new 2-year collective agreements for IDA's approx. 4,000 municipal and 2,000 regional employees.

Malene Matthison-Hansen, IDA's political negotiation chief at OK24 and chairperson of the Council of Employees, has the following to say about the process:

"The negotiations have been long and difficult, but we are pleased that we managed to secure an improvement of real income. This was the absolute top priority for IDA's members.

In addition, the pension contribution will be increased by 2.22% points for municipal employees and 1.99% points for regional employees as of 1 April 2025. The new agreements also introduce the choice of having the pension increase either paid into a pension scheme, paid out as salary or paid into a new savings account linked to the pension scheme (read more below). 

I would also like to highlight a completely new savings account, which gives the individual the opportunity to finance, for example, breaks from working or a switch of career paths. IDA's members demand flexibility, and the savings account offers some new options for this."

The agreement between the Academics (the confederation of professional organisations which includes IDA) and the municipal employers contains:

• A salary framework of 8.8%, giving expected general salary increases of 5.74% in 2024 and 0.77% in 2025 (4.0% general salary increase + 1.74% expected increase due to the regulatory scheme in 2024, and 0.44% general salary increase + 0.33% expected increase due to the regulatory scheme in 2025).
• A pension increase of 2.22% per 1 April 2025. Pension contributions of over 15 % you can also choose to receive as salary or deposit into a new savings account for later use.
• A completely new element in the form of a savings account where you can choose between pension, salary and savings for periods of further education etc.
• A new agreement on saving time off. The agreement gives employees the opportunity to save time off in lieu and special holiday days for later use.
• Improved parental leave conditions that ensure better and more equal parental leave rights and, among other things, provides 3 more weeks with full pay for fathers, co-mothers and adoptive parents, as well as several weeks with full pay for solo parents and parents of twins.
• The municipal competency fund will be continued, so that you still have the opportunity to apply for funds for continuing and further education.
• Special supplement to support the work with green transition in the municipalities: As of 1 April 2025, a special pensionable basic salary supplement of DKK 9,000 per year (31/3 2000 level) will be granted to the academics employed on the Agreement for academics in municipalities who work with the environment - and nature protection in the municipalities' technical administrations.

Read: The municipal agreement (in Danish)

Read: Appendix to the agreement (in Danish)

The agreement between the Academics (the confederation of professional organisations which includes IDA) and the regional employers contains:

• A salary framework of 8.8%, giving general salary increases of 5.76% in 2024 and 0.77% in 2025.
• A pension increase of 1.99% per 1 April 2025 which you can also choose to receive as salary or deposit into a new savings account for later use.
• A completely new element in the form of a savings account where you can choose between pension, salary and savings for periods of further education etc.
• A new agreement on saving time off. The agreement gives employees the opportunity to save time off in lieu and special holiday days for later use.
• Improved parental leave conditions that ensure better and more equal parental leave rights and, among other things, provides 3 more weeks with full pay for fathers, co-mothers and adoptive parents, as well as several weeks with full pay for solo parents and parents of twins.
• The municipal competency fund will be continued, so that you still have the opportunity to apply for funds for continuing and further education. 

Read: The regions' agreement incl. Appendix (in Danish)

Read: Fact sheet on the regions (in Danish)

The regulatory scheme: Important change for your benefit

At OK24, we have come through with an important change to the way the so-called regulation scheme is calculated.

The regulatory scheme must ensure that pay trends in the public sector follow those in the private sector. And the new calculation basis will mean that public salaries in the future will follow the private salary development more precisely than today. It is an important result that we have fought hard for in the negotiations.

Big yes from IDA members

During the period 20 March - 5 April 2024, all public sector IDA members were able to vote on the result IDA negotiated on behalf of its members at OK24 on pay and working conditions.

The result was a big yes to the new collective agreements.

Big overall yes from the academic unions

The vote on OK24 was indicative among all IDA's public sector members.

Based on the members' votes, IDA's political committees, Employee Council and IDA Public, subsequently decided to approve the result.

IDA reported the result to our umbrella organisation Akademikerne, as did the other academic unions.

Akademikerne then considered the overall result from all member organisations. Again, the result was a big yes to new collective agreements for a total of 150,000 public sector academic employees.