New agreement on collective labour agreement for petrol stations and carwash companies: these are the main agreements
The employer and employee organisations cooperating in the Social Fund
for Service Stations and Laundries (SFTW) have reached an agreement for the CBA for Service Stations and Laundries. Employees in the industry will get a salary increase of 4.75 per cent in July and 3.75 per cent from January next year.
This was announced by industry organisation Drive, formerly Beta, on Monday. The CBA for Service Stations and Laundries runs from 1 April 2025 to 31 December 2026. From 1 July 2025, the actual salaries and salary tables will be structurally increased by 4.75 per cent per month and again structurally by 3.75 per cent per month on 1 January 2026.
Job building
The parties have agreed to implement the job structure as it emerged from the Berenschot study in the collective labour agreement, together with the job manual, from 1 January 2026. This will replace the current job group system. In practice, this change may cause shifts here and there. The impact is otherwise quite manageable. This is because the development takes into account the fact that companies have built their own system on the ‘old’ job grades.
In addition, the parties have expressed a desire to arrive at a standardisation of the pay system. An external party will be commissioned to carry out a study on this during the term of the CBA. This will look at actual pay (incl. own pay systems), comparable industries and input from employer and employee parties.
Abolishing youth wages
Parties agreed that the line taken last year on youth wages will be continued, partly to be attractive to working young people. This means that youth wages will be abolished for the employee aged 20 for job groups 3 and 4.
During the negotiations, at the table on behalf of Drive were board member Michel Iesberts (Tanqplus) and collective agreement committee member Dorothy Berns (Vissers Energy Group), along with Tim Schoenmakers and Steven Stroet from the secretariat. Drive’s negotiating team says they are pleased that they have finally ‘still arrived at this result so smoothly, after a somewhat difficult run-up’. ‘There is a future-proof agreement in terms of wages and in terms of modernisation and with this we can move forward in the coming period,’ the industry association said in an explanation. Drive concluded the collective agreement together with BOVAG, FNV, CNV, De Unie and LBV.
