The year progresses Price:%s They’re barely moderate and wages are stagnant. This is the photo supplementing the data updated on Monday. Ministry of Laboraccording to the salaries determined by collective agreement is currently increasing at a rate 2.6%, compared to a CPI of 9% in the same month. The generalized blockade, in which collective bargaining has been established between employers and unions since the onset of Covid, has resulted in very few contract renewals, while the number of workers covered by the collective agreement in force is at its lowest in recent years. And the few people who sign it do so in increments that leave employees with a setback in their jobs. purchasing power.
this wage control This is the prevailing trend so far in 2022, due to work resistance rather than the will of the workers. After the nine-month blockade, the unions began a cycle of mobilization to try to reverse this generalized loss of purchasing power. This is the case, for example, for metal in Barcelona and Tarragona, a key sector in the Catalan economy with around 200,000 employees and going on strike in the last week of October. The industry is in a process that will structure its own protests and aim to culminate in a big demonstration in Madrid at the beginning of November.
Half of all deals signed so far are planning wage increases of between 1% and 2%, clearly far from the CPI. And very few industries or companies think on their own terms. salary review articlesthat is, at the end of the year, they equate workers’ salaries to the level at which prices have risen. Only one in four deals is considering this, according to data from the Bank of Spain.
Where unions have more members and bargaining power, wages rise slightly more intensely, although almost always below the price level. According to Department of Labor data, wages for workers covered by a company contract rise to 2.9%, compared to 2.6% for industry contracts. However, the former represents only 6.5% of contracted workers.
The increase in the private sector is lower than agreed in the contract for now and to see how the year ends. public function. Salary of civil servants has increased 3.5% this year, according to the review agreed between the executive, CCOO and UGT last week. And much further than that pensions According to government estimates, it will be around 8.5% from next year.
Currently, the salary regulation imposed by the title deeds co-exists with the increase in registered job postings. Namely, vacancies that companies intend to fill. According to data published by the portal this Monday information jobsIn September, it registered a total of 248,367 vacancies, representing an increase of 21% compared to last August and 5% more than in September 2021. Status of staff currently on payroll.
If we go back to Infojobs data, partly due to the claims of companies using this portal, trade and sales (17.7%), customer support (11 and purchasing, logistics and warehouse (10.7%) are the occupations with the highest job vacancies on InfoJobs for a month. Among the three, they account for almost 40% of the positions offered on the platform in September.