Contractually agreed wages increased 2.78% through December 2022, which is higher than the cumulative data for November (2.69%), but three times from the last CPI, whose inter-year rate slowed to 5.8% in December. score lower, according to data from collective bargaining statistics Ministry of Labor and Social Economy.
Due to the lack of subsequent revisions due to the inclusion of wage guarantee provisions, this wage increase is less and somewhat more harmonious than the 3.6% increase agreed between the Government and the unions for the interprofessional minimum wage (SMI) for 2022. specified in the guidelines Agreement on Employment and Collective Bargaining between Confederations (AENC) 2018-2020 proposed salary increases of approximately 2% plus one percentage point, linked to concepts such as productivity, work results and absenteeism.
This AENC could not be renewed in 2022 due to existing differences involved. salary review article, inalienable for unions and unacceptable for employers given high inflation levels.
Most of the agreements registered in 2022 labor statistics entered into force that year, although it was signed in previous years.
Specifically, in 2022 the total 3,084 collective agreements with economic implications for that year, only 880 of which were signed that year, with an average salary increase of 3.24%. The remaining 2,204 were signed in previous years and include a lower average salary increase of 2.60%.
3,084 contracts registered in 2022, 9 million workers
Four out of five, no review item
According to labor statistics, most of the contracts registered in 2022, salary review article In order not to lose purchasing power. Specifically, only 13.2% (409) of the 3,084 contracts recorded have a wage guarantee clause, of which 308 consider retroactive application.
Contracts with review clauses affect just over 1.9 million of the 9.04 million employees covered by contracts registered in 2022. equivalent to 21.08% of the total.
a) Yes, most of it workers (almost four out of five) collective agreements do not contain a protection clause. The number of workers protected by this tool has been reduced compared to last November (22.64%) and is less than six percentage points compared to months where it exceeded 29%, such as last March.
Although the percentage of workers protected by such a clause is currently below the 30% observed at the beginning of 2022, according to partial information available for 2023 from the Bank of Spain a few weeks ago, just over 45% of workers with a contract signed for 2023 represent this. The introduction of salary review provisions was undergoing an “additional increase”.
Four out of 10 deals get raises
Of the total number of contracts registered last year, 2,320 were from companies that affected 577,300 workers and had an average wage increase of 3.22%. 764 sectoral agreements It covered 8.46 million employees with an average wage increase of 2.75%.
The average working day agreed in the contract was 1,735.7 hours per worker per year at the end of 2022 (1,703.2 hours in Turkey). company deals and 1.737.9) in higher level agreements.
Of the 3,084 contracts registered last year, a total of 143 were designed, corresponding to 4.6%. salary freeze, 38.8% of contracts, almost four out of ten contracts, included a pay rise of over 3%, with an average of 4.84%.
47.3% of contracts include salary increases ranging from 0.5% to 2.5% on average. Agreements registered until December With wage increases of more than 2%, it reaches 54.2% of the total. Statistics do not include any agreements with salary cuts in 2022, as opposed to 2021, when two contracts of this nature were contemplated.
Affected by ‘Drop’
Labor statistics also in 2022 557 agreements not being implementedBelow 559 (-0.3%) in 2021.
These ‘drops’ total 21,797 workersCompared to the 26,923 affected in 2021, this represents a 19% decrease. The ‘removal’ of contracts presupposes a review of working conditions in companies.