Until March 2010 all university personnel will receive 9.65 percent extra on their salaries. This includes a higher year-end bonus, which will as of 2009 be equivalent with a 13th month’s salary. Two days off will be cut, though. So much is clear from the draft collective labor agreement on which negotiators of the trade unions and the universities reached agreement last week. The year-end bonus will be increased step by step: now it is still three percent. Due to the considerable increase in this bonus the rise in the monthly salary looks somewhat modest: a 2.25 percent rise as at 1 January 2008, and another 2.1 percent extra in 2009. Employees who insist on keeping their two days off can use the extra money to buy them back. In the negotiators’ agreement the universities are given room to experiment with job contracts. In such contracts, scientists may voluntarily make agreements on a more flexible time-table for their educational and research duties, so that they are not tied to a fixed five-day working week any longer.