The TOR/Generation Pact working group has finalized the proposals to improve the TOR scheme. These will be presented shortly during various sessions. Members can then vote.
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The working group has been working for over a year to examine how we can improve the current TOR scheme. The survey showed that TOR is viewed as very valuable by almost everyone, but that it is not broad enough.
Part-time plus scheme
In the working group's proposal, we have therefore retained the TOR as you know it. Under the TOR scheme, the participant can take half a day off per week (day shift) or cycle (shift work). This is now being expanded with a second scheme: the Part-time Plus scheme. This scheme is based on the 90-90-100 principle, allowing employees to work 90 percent, receive 90 percent of their salary, and retain 100 percent of their pension accrual. With this scheme, employees can extend or even expand their TOR.
What can you do with it?
The Part-Time Plus scheme is flexible and voluntary and can be used alongside or after the TOR scheme. For example, someone can start the TOR scheme at age 60 and make use of the Part-Time Plus scheme in the final years of their employment, giving them a day off every two weeks during day shifts starting at age 60.
If someone would like to have a day off every week and work 4 days, they could, for example, start the TOR with 4 years before retirement and also make use of the part-time-plus scheme. There are various such possibilities with the new scheme. You can read more information about the new scheme here. in the attachmentIt also contains the conditions and details of the scheme.
Conditions of the new scheme
In addition, we would like to tell you more during various information meetings hosted by the trade unions and the employer. The scheme will be explained at these meetings, and you will have the opportunity to ask questions. The details and conditions will also be discussed in more detail. For instance, the TOR scheme has a reducing effect on, among other things, the number of vacation days, allowances, the amount of unemployment benefits (WW), sickness benefits (ZW), or disability benefits (WIA), and the amount of severance pay.
In addition, it has been agreed that the 3 sustainable employability days will be forfeited if someone participates in the part-time-plus scheme. This is to prevent the workload on the remaining employees from becoming too high. The wage savings (after all, participants receive approximately 10% less pay) are used to hire new employees to alleviate the workload.
Information meeting
The new regulation therefore expands the possibilities. This also makes it slightly more complicated. To provide further explanation, we therefore invite you to participate in the information sessions. The meetings of the trade unions and the employer will take place at the following times.
- Monday, May 18 at 10:00 AM online. Members have received an invitation for this meeting.
- Tuesday, May 19 at 10:00 AM in Waalwijk (location WAW_B01 BC room_0_01.022).
- Tuesday, May 19 at 3:15 PM in Hoek van Holland (location: canteen).
To vote
After the meetings, members can vote digitally on the expansion of the TOR regulations. For, as always, the members have the final say. Members will receive a separate newsletter to vote. Since this concerns an expansion of the current TOR regulations and is therefore an improvement, we recommend voting in favor. If the proposal is adopted, the intention is to implement it on October 1, 2026.
Do you have colleagues who are not yet members of a union and would like to vote? That is possible; they only need to become members of De UnieWith at least a full membership, they can cast their vote. Becoming a member is very simple and can here.
And then a general appeal
The trade union federation for professionals, the VCP, has launched a petition to protest against this cabinet's austerity plans for social security. De Unie is a member of the VCP. You can support this protest by this online petition to draw.
Questions?
Do you have any questions or comments? Please let us know. You can do so via dirk.van.gestel@unie.nl
