This large employer’s board of directors CEOE voted ‘yes’ unanimously preliminary agreement with the unions to renew the salary contract. An extraordinary gathering of businessmen this Monday confirmed their commitments. at least 10% increase in the salaries of its employees until 2025. Compared to 4% this year and 3% each of the next two years. Now the leaders of union centers should do the same and have called on relevant government bodies this Monday and Tuesday to finish the signing of the fifth Employment and Collective Bargaining Agreement (AENC).
One year, three months and a week after Government President Pedro Sánchez called on employers and unions to strike a three-way income agreement. distribute the costs inflation, the social partners are preparing to sign their own contracts. With the government’s hypothesis failing, Sánchez single-handedly implements whatever measures he sees fit to contain the price crisis, without social mediation, and employers and unions have tied the salary to themselves.
It cost them over a year, long break and the threat of ‘warm autumn’ in the middle. After all, if the deal is fulfilled, salaries in the private sector could meet inflation this year and may even gain purchasing power depending on how the CPI develops. Research institutions like Funcas risk an annual inflation of 4.1%, and social intermediaries put another 4% floor plus one point if the CPI exceeds 4%.
The salary increase for the private sector will be higher than the amount agreed by the center with the Government for public employees. The management has agreed to increase salaries by 8 to 9.5% between 2022 and 2024, depending on the development of GDP and inflation. In the private sector, payrolls will increase between 10% and 13% if companies adhere to what is agreed upon religiously..
Agreements such as the metals agreement or trade agreement in Girona, the fruit-picking agreement in Lleida, or the government agreement for chemicals that specifically affect Tarragona are some of the agreements that will expire in the coming months and should include recommendations. Included in AENC.
Deal extends ‘Spanish oasis’
The centers have managed to get commitments from employers to raise wages more than the inertia of collective bargaining has so far allowed. According to the latest figures compiled by the Ministry of Labor, wages increase by an average of 3.1%although new deals that are being closed are closing with increases of 4.8%.
In other words, unions and employers have chosen a middle ground between the inertia of recent months and the wage pressure that companies accept with a strong reluctance to raise salaries a year later. In this sense, the centers agreed to soften their claims in certain sectors in exchange for generalization. higher rises in areas where they have very few attachment muscles and workers suffered further loss of purchasing power.
The agreement generally does not provide for mechanisms to correct or compensate for the loss of purchasing power suffered by workers in the past year. 2022 was the largest wage devaluation in Spain since 1985, with wages rising 2.8% compared to 8.4% of the CPI.
The success of AENC has disabled several protest flares that have occurred in recent months. Spain will continue to be an ‘oasis’ of social peace with the lowest level of strikes in decades, unlike other neighboring countries where wage demands or rejection of new regulations – as in the case of France on pensions – have become tense. streets