Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities

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Section 1 Definitions and obligations
Article 1.1 Definitions and abbreviations
a Universities: the public and special universities;
b Public university: the public universities in Leiden, Groningen, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Delft,
Wageningen, Eindhoven, Enschede, Rotterdam and Maastricht, and the Open University of
the Netherlands in Heerlen;
c Special university: the special universities in Amsterdam, Nijmegen and Tilburg;
d Institution: the university;
e Association: the Association for Christian Higher Education, Academic Research and Patient Care,
in Amsterdam;
f Foundation: either the Catholic University of Brabant Foundation in Tilburg or the Catholic
University Foundation in Nijmegen;
g Employees’ organisations: the employee organisations that are a party to this Collective Labour
Agreement (CAO);
h Employer: the Board of Governors and, with regard to the special universities, the Executive
Committee of the Association/Foundation; the Free University, the Free University Medical Centre
and the Windesheim Academy are part of the Free University Windesheim Association legal entity.
The Radboud University in Nijmegen and the UMC St Radboud form part of the Catholic University
Foundation legal entity. With regard to the applicability of this Collective Labour Agreement (CAO)
on an institutional level, the Free University and the RUN are the employer;
i Employee: the person who is employed by an institution or the offices of the association referred to
under e;
j Employment contract: either an appointment at a public university or an employment contract with
a special university;
k Temporary employment contract: temporary employment contract, arranged either for a
predetermined period or for an objectively definable set of circumstances, the duration of which
is not precisely known in advance;
l Permanent employment contract: employment contract for an indefinite period of time;
m Notice of termination by the employee: at a public university this is taken to mean the request
for dismissal made by the employee;
n Consultation between the employer and local employees’ organisations: the local consultation
with employees’ organisations as laid down in the consultation protocol;
o Employee participation body: the body that is designated as such on the grounds of Articles 9.30,
9.31, 9.37, 9.49, 9.50 and 9.51 of the Higher Education and Academic Research Act (WHW);
p Full time employment: employment for 38 hours per week;
q Salary: the monthly amount established for the employee in question based on the salary tables in
Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities, 1 September 2007 to 1 March 2010