After lengthy negotiations, Naalakkersuisut and IMAK have agreed on a new four-year collective agreement that, among other things, provides salary improvements for teachers and strengthens the conditions for employees who work with children and young people with special needs.
The new agreement applies from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2029 and has a total gross margin of 9.07 percent. Naalakkersuisut announces this on their website.
The agreement contains general salary improvements, a special increase in teachers’ basic salary and an increase in a number of supplements. At the same time, the conditions for employees in MISI-PPR are improved. IMAK’s chairman, Elna Heilmann, is pleased by this, who writes on the organisation’s Facebook page:
– We can announce that the basic salaries will be increased by an average of approx. 13%, and that IMAK establishes a social fund. In addition, an increased focus on courses and continuing education has been agreed.
The parties emphasize that the agreement must contribute to recruiting and retaining teachers as well as strengthening efforts for children and young people with special needs.
Well-being and working conditions
There is also agreement to continue working with mentoring schemes for newly qualified and newly employed teachers, clearer frameworks for working hours and days off, better access to further and further education and an increased focus on well-being and prevention of work-related stress.
The negotiations have been going on for a long time, and the teachers have therefore waited a long time for a clarification of their future salary and terms of employment.
The result of the collective agreement must now be sent to a first vote among IMAK’s members and subsequently approved by the employer side.
– The next step will be to publish the results to the members and send them to a preliminary vote, writes Elna Heilmann on IMAK’s Facebook page.
