Section 1 - Chapter 2
BES Healthcare CLA; origin and ambition

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2.1. Principles relative to the former Collective Labor Agreements

Employees’ rights and entitlements arising from provisions of previous Collective Labor Agreements that used to apply to the Employee shall lapse upon the effective date of this Collective Labor Agreement.

The rights and entitlements arising from the provisions of this Collective Labor Agreement shall apply in lieu of rights and entitlements arising from provisions of previous Collective Labor Agreements, subsequent effects or continuing effects of those rights and entitlements.

The agreements made by the Employer Saba Cares Foundation, St. Eustatius Health Care Foundation and St. Eustatius Auxiliary Home Foundation with the Unions All For 1 Union St. Eustatius (AF1) and Saba United People's Labor Union and Association (SUPLUA) in January 2023 and in May 2023, have been adopted into the labor contracts of the respective Employees, and are incorporated and constitute part of this Collective Labor Agreement.

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2.2. Funding and ambition

Employers endeavor to have structural financial resources available for the improvement of the employment conditions of this CLA. In doing so, the resources provided under the (OVA) system will be optimally used to improve the employment conditions.

The parties to this CLA aim to arrive at the employment conditions level of the healthcare CLAs in the Netherlands appropriate to the Caribbean context. The parties jointly and individually endeavor to obtain the necessary structural funding for this.