fees accepted by collective agreement rank up 3.3% until July, one point above inflation. This payroll agreed between employers And unions So they continue on their way to regain some of it. purchasing power lost through the current price crisis after a disastrous 2022 in that sense for most pockets.
According to data updated this Tuesday by the Ministry of Labor, the salary 8.9 million workers Employment by others has increased by an average of 3.3% so far this year. A year ago, the agreed increases for these dates were 2.6%. You have to go back to 2008 to find the higher wage increases that were agreed upon. Although the salary hike was higher at that time, the tightening of prices caused a decrease in purchasing power.
In May, employers and union bosses reached an agreement to drive collective bargaining, setting the benchmark salary increases of 4% for this year. And according to data from renewed collective agreements, this reference is currently being met. Updated industry specifications are two-tenths above this reference, with an average increase of 4.2%.
And since the social actors have reached this agreement, the relations between the parties, sector by sector, have become more fluid. Two million workers saw their contracts renewed in these two months, highlighting the traditional ‘year-end effect’, as it is common for negotiations to be frozen before summer and opening up at the end of the year. .
Considering that the working conditions of 8.9 million of the 16.2 million employees registered with the SGK are subject to collective agreements, the scope of collective bargaining agreements is currently 55%. July.