This fees increased by an average of 2.81% in January when a deal was agreed uponSlightly higher than recorded at the end of 2022 (2.78%), but three points below the last CPI. In the first month of the year, the inter-annual rate increased to 5.8%, According to data obtained from the collective bargaining statistics of the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy.
This salary increase This is less than the 8% increase agreed between the Government and the unions. interprofessional minimum wage (SMI) The increase in contributory pensions (+8.5%) is somewhat more in line with the guidelines outlined in the last agreement pact signed by CCOO, UGT, CEOE and Cepyme, which expires in 2020.
Said agreement proposed salary increases of about 2% plus one percentage point depending on the concepts. productivity, work results, and absenteeism.
unions I want to renew this contract with commercial organizations And there have already been some contacts after failing to do so in 2022 due to existing differences around the salary review clause to protect the purchasing power of workers.
CCOO and UGT In addition to the inflation situation, they took into account the progress of each economic sector through an “objective” indicator and opened them to wage increases.this can facilitate negotiations with businessmen to conclude an agreement.
They insist on demanding that the government sign a collective bargaining agreement that reassesses workers’ salaries from social actors. Yolanda Díazy, the second vice president, did so only yesterday after learning of the annual salary of CEOE chief Antonio Garamendi of close to 400,000 euros.
For his part, First Vice President, Nadia Kalvinostill thinks it would be best to have a lease for a few yearshowever, unions and businessmen think it is too late for that, because the measures that should be part of this have already been adopted by the Executive.
Only four deals signed in January
This Most of the contracts recorded in January in labor statistics were signed in previous years, although they went into effect in 2023..
Specifically, in the first month of the year, a total of 1,774 collective agreements with economic impacts in 2023 were registered, of which only 4 were signed this year, all of them company agreements. average salary increase of 3.34%. The remaining 1,770 people signed up in previous years and include a lower average salary increase of 2.81%.
The 1,774 contracts registered in January provided protection for approximately 5.4 million workers.
Almost 73% of employees without review provisions
According to labor statistics, most of the contracts were registered in January There is no salary review clause to prevent losses in purchasing power. Specifically, only 16.8% (298) of the 1,774 contracts recorded had a wage guarantee clause, of which 214 are considering retroactive application.
Contracts with review clauses affect just over 1.46 million workers out of the approximately 5.4 million covered by contracts registered in January, accounting for 27.2% of the total.
Therefore, although the number of workers protected by this tool has increased compared to last December (21.08%) and is close to last December, the majority of workers (almost four-fifths) do not have a protection clause in their collective agreements. March 2022, when it exceeded 29%.
Slightly more than 45% of workers with a contract already signed for 2023 have salary review clauses, according to provisional data from the Bank of Spain.
Three out of ten deals include a raise of more than 3%
From the total number of contracts registered in January, 1,323 were from companies that affected 340,983 employees and had an average salary increase of 2.70%, while 451 were from industry contracts. It covered approximately 5 million employees with an average wage increase of 2.82%.
The average contractually agreed working day was 1,752 hours per worker per year in January (1,710.7 hours for company contracts and 1,754.8 hours for senior contracts).
Out of 1,774 contracts registered in January, 49, corresponding to 2.7%, had a salary freeze, and 31.6% had a salary increase of more than 3%, three out of every ten contracts. average 4.67%.
More than half of the contracts, particularly 54.6%, involve average salary increases ranging from 0.5% to 2.5%. Contracts with salary increases of more than 2% recorded in January amounted to 59% of the total. Statistics do not include any agreement with the pay cut.
Workers affected by pick-ups increased by 45%
Labor statistics also reveal that 90 contracts were not implemented in January, up from 80 (+12.5%) in the same month of 2022.
These ‘disconnections’ affected a total of 3,799 workers, representing a 45.1% increase compared to the 2,617 workers affected in January 2022. The ‘removal’ of contracts presupposes a review of working conditions in companies.