Employers and Spanish unions seal the salary increase of up to 3% for 2018-2020

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Likewise, they have proposed to reach a minimum wage in an agreement of 14,000 euros per year in 2020.

 

Employers and unions have closed today the IV Agreement for Employment and Collective Bargaining (AENC) 2018-2020, with a recommendation of annual salary increase of around 2% plus 1% variable and with the task of achieving a minimum wage in agreement of 14,000 euros per year in 2020.

The president of the CEOE and Cepyme bosses, Juan Rosell and Antonio Garamendi, and the general secretaries of UGT and CCOO, Pepe Álvarez and Unai Sordo, have held today a final meeting in which this principle of agreement has been initialed and will now be submitted to the ratification of their respective organizations.

The recommendations of the AENC should be transferred to the negotiation of each agreement, which will determine the exact amount of the fixed part of the salary increase and the concepts to which the variable part will be linked, which can be from the evolution of the activity or the results until unjustified absenteeism, provided they are measurable indicators known by the parties.

Regarding the minimum salary of 14,000 euros per year, it says that it should be achieved progressively and framed in the existing collective agreements, linking it to its renewal.

In addition, the agreement talks about recovering the ultraactivity of the agreements, limited to one year with the labor reform of 2012, so that they can remain valid while their renewal is being negotiated and there is a commitment to reach an agreement.

They also appeal to the central government to develop measures that encourage the maintenance of staff with economic difficulties, so as to encourage temporary reductions in working hours without the worker's social protection or compensation being affected, but allowing the company to "adjust costs". labor. "

On retirement, they ask for the legal changes that allow extinguishing the work contract to those who reach the ordinary retirement age provided they have the right to full pension, while claiming the recovery of the relief contract linked to partial retirement.

Equality

Both parties are committed to developing comprehensive measures to promote labor equality between men and women, including the development of the system for attention to independence and childhood, the equalization of paternity and maternity leave or reductions in working hours, and the qualitative study of the gender impact of bonuses and salary supplements.