In case of job downgrading as referred to in Article 6.18, you are eligible for an individual allowance if you have held your job for three years or more and your current job salary exceeds the maximum of the lower job scale for the new job. The individual allowance is the difference between the former and the new individual job salary. The individual allowance will be scaled down during a period of three years.
In the first year, the allowance is fixed at 100% of the difference, in the second year at 67% and in the third, and last year, at 33%. The amounts are determined once and are not adjusted to CLA increases.
The individual allowance does not count for your pension base after the change of job. The pension entitlements accrued up to the time of the job change are regarded as dormant rights.
For calculation of the old age pension the pension entitlements accrued before and after the job change are added up together.
Individual allowances and guarantees not included in your individual job salary are not included in this scheme.