The VTV is the Collective agreement on the social fund procedure in the construction industry. It regulates in particular the scope of the social fund procedure as well as its organisational and procedural implementation, including notifications, social fund contributions, the leave procedure and the responsibilities of the participating social funds.
What is the VTV?
The VTV is one of the core collective agreements of the construction industry. It determines which companies and employees the social fund procedure applies to and how the collective agreement procedures are carried out with the relevant social funds.
For this purpose, the Collective agreement includes regulations on electronic reports, master data, monthly reports, holiday benefits, social fund contributions and contribution collection, amongst other things.
What does the scope of application of the VTV regulate?
The VTV defines a geographical, operational and personal scope.
For the operational scope, it is particularly decisive which activities an establishment actually performs and whether these are assigned to the construction industry according to the collective bargaining regulations. The VTV contains extensive activity descriptions as well as delimitations from other trades in this regard.
Depending on the Tarifvertrag, the personal scope covers various employee groups, including industrial workers, certain salaried employees and trainees.
What role do ULAK and ZVK-Bau play?
Under the name SOKA-BAU in particular occur the ULAK and the ZVK-Bau together up.
The VTV governs its tasks within the social fund procedures. The ULAK provides benefits in particular in the leave and vocational training procedures and generally also acts as the collection agency for the corresponding social fund contributions within the VTV. The ZVK-Bau is responsible for supplementary pension benefits.
Which reports does the VTV regulate?
The VTV contains extensive reporting obligations for employers. These include, among other things, master company data as well as details about the employees covered by the Collective agreement.
For commercial employees, for example, the Collective agreement provides for monthly information on the subject-to-contributions Gross pay, days of employment, days of holiday granted and holiday pay, as well as certain periods of absence.
These notification data serve, among other things, to process the leave procedure and to calculate contributions and entitlements.
What is the significance of the social security contributions?
The VTV contains regulations on the collection and payment of social fund contributions. For manual workers, the collectively agreed contribution-based Gross pay defined in the tariff is particularly important in this regard.
The various social security fund procedures are financed through the contributions. The specific benefits and claims associated with these are derived in part from further collective agreements in the construction industry.
VTV and BRTV – what is the difference?
The BRTV contains basic collective agreement regulations on the working conditions of manual workers in the construction industry, in particular working hours, wage groups and holiday entitlement.
By contrast, the VTV primarily regulates the implementation of the social fund procedures, for example notifications, contribution collection and reimbursements.
In short: The BRTV regulates essential collective wage claims and working conditions – the VTV organises the associated social fund procedures.
