digiPACCT calculation tool updated

digiPACCT calculation tool
9 August 2024

digiPACCT calculation tool updated

Photo: digiPACCT / Publication: 09/08/24

DigiPACCT’s collective bargaining salary-to-zzp rate calculation tool has been updated. This tool , originally prepared in 2019 at the request of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW), is intended as a supplement to the Fair Practice Checklist. Since then, the calculation tool has been further developed as part of digiPACCT. With the calculation tool, all existing collective agreement salaries can be translated into zzp rates. With this, the tool aims to provide a handle in the preparation of budgets based on fair pay, and to provide a handle in assessing the application of the Fair Pay principle of the self-employed – as part of the Fair Practice Code.

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In November 2021, Platform ACCT also launched the three-year program “Improving Working Conditions and Collective Agreements” (fairPACCT) to promote collective agreements on better working conditions within various disciplines. The aim is to use the so-called chain tables to translate the Fair Practice Code into concrete tools for application in practice. These tools, which include specific calculation tools per industry, are each created in their own autonomous and independent manner and tailored to industry-specific variables and unique circumstances, and are therefore guiding for the workers (and work providers) in that industry.

digiPACCT calculation tool

In order to bring the digiPACCT calculation tool in line with developments within those chain tables, the principles and starting points of the calculation tool have been revised in recent months. The result is an up-to-date and future-proof tool. For more information and justification about the calculation tool click here.

In creating the calculation tool, a conscious choice was made for simplicity. One general, unambiguous and not too detailed approach that can be used by all organizations in the entire cultural and creative sector for converting CAO wages into (minimum) zzp hourly rates that can be considered ‘fair’. As a result, the tool deliberately lacks the sector- and profession-specific approach and tuning that is ultimately needed to arrive at a truly appropriate reasonable rate for the self-employed workers with whom the organization contracts in each individual case.

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Calculate a fair zzp rate yourself? Click on:

digiPACCT calculation tool

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Fair Practice Assessment

Please note that the assessment about organizations being “Fair Practice” is, for the time being, reserved for the Council for Culture and the sector-specific Culture Funds. This is therefore not a task or responsibility of Platform ACCT. With this calculation tool, Platform ACCT cannot and does not want to enter into consultations between social partners in (sub)sectors in the cultural and creative sector. The tool is only intended for the preparation of budgets that provide room for Fair Practice. It is possible that the tool can serve as an aid in negotiations.

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