Pharma agreement sets kr 229.46 minimum rate plus seniority

The 2026-2028 agreement for pharmaceutical manufacturers (Farmasøytiske bedrifter, avtale 109)Styrke between Næringslivets Hovedorganisasjon, Norsk Industri og de i denne stående farmasøytiske bedrifter on one side and Landsorganisasjonen i Norge, Forbundet Styrke og vedkommende avdelinger av forbundet on the otherStyrke expires on 30 April 2028Styrke; it was signed in Oslo in July 2026. Section 19 states the agreement applies from 1 May 2024 to 30 April 2028Styrke and continues year by year unless terminated in writing on two months' notice. It covers operators in production, transport and storage, assembly, maintenance, the parts warehouse, cleaning, the canteen, guard duties and standby service, plus related control, inspection, facilitation and coordination, including part-time staff. Guard posts with switchboard duties and skilled operators doing laboratory work stay inside the agreement, which staffing agencies can also invoke for hired-out staff within its scope.

No adult worker is paid below kr 229.46 per hour for a 37.5-hour weekStyrke, a floor the parties renegotiate each main-settlement year with effect per 1 May; after central and concerted interim settlements they negotiate minimum pay, seniority and shift supplements in line with wage growth inside agreement area 109, normally effective 1 May. Seniority adds kr 2.00 per hour after one year, kr 3.50 after three years, kr 6.00 after five years and kr 8.00 after seven years. Local job supplements reflect the nature of the work and qualifications, drivers are paid on the minimum and seniority scales plus a local supplement, and a relevant fagbrev adds kr 20.00 per hour with at most two. Particularly dirty or unpleasant work attracts locally agreed supplements.

Ordinary working time averages at most 37.5 hours per week; work ends at 12.00 on Christmas, New Year, Easter and Whitsun eves and at 14.00 on other days before holidays, paid as a full day. Shift weeks average 36.5, 35.5 or 33.6 hours, working time can be averaged under section 10-5 of the arbeidsmiljøloven, changing is arranged locally, with central encouragement for local talks on cleanroom changing time, and breaks must be scheduled, predictable and paid where work intrudes. Standby rotas follow section 10-4(3) of the arbeidsmiljøloven. Afternoon shifts pay kr 24.71 per hour and nights kr 42.21. Overtime pays 50 percent up to 21.00 and 100 percent after, 100 percent on Saturdays and days before holidays after ordinary hours and on Sundays and holidays until 22.00, plus holiday pay compensation for movable holidays and 1 and 17 May; same-day overtime of at least two hours triggers a meal or kr 114 in meal money.

From 1 January 2027Styrke employers must advance (forskuttere) sick pay and pleie- and foreldrepengerStyrke on detailed conditions: only where the worker qualifies for sick pay from the employer and NAV pays benefit after the employer period (ftrl. section 8-17(1)(a), (d) and (e)); the amount advanced is limited to what NAV refunds; advances run for at most four months per calendar year including the employer period for sick pay; only for employees with at least six months of continuous service; with notice no later than one month before advances stop and repayment of erroneous advances. Better firm-level schemes are not weakened. When a worker with at least three years of service dies, the company pays two months' full pay into the deceased's pay account, and elected representatives may communicate in Norwegian.

The rules are in the 2026-2028 agreement for Farmasøytiske bedrifter (avtale 109)Styrke between Næringslivets Hovedorganisasjon, Norsk Industri og de i denne stående farmasøytiske bedrifter on one side and Landsorganisasjonen i Norge, Forbundet Styrke og vedkommende avdelinger av forbundet on the other, which also governs duration and second-year wage negotiationsStyrke.