The employers have already agreed to the Agreement for Employment and Collective Bargaining (AENC) for the period 2023-25 and now the approval of the unions is also expected. CC.OO. He has summoned his confederal committee to analyze it, and the UGT executive is meeting this morning.
It has been the governing bodies of the CEOE, first the executive committee and then the board of directors, who unanimously approved this morning the pre-agreement reached last Friday between the employers and the unions, representing an increase of 4% this year, and 3% in 2024 and 2025, with a salary guarantee clause based on inflation that could reach a maximum of an additional 1%.
The document also states that the negotiators of the collective agreements "must take into account the specific circumstances of their field to set the salary conditions", so that the application of these recommendations, because let's remember, what the AENC sets are recommendations , adapts to each sector or each company. This is one of the usual demands of the employers, to which the unions recently gave their endorsement. In other words, take into account the evolution of each company to set salary increases, given that there are important differences between the growth of the sectors, their results or the incidence that the increase in the Minimum Interprofessional Wage (SMI) may have.
The agreement also includes one of the recurring requests of the CEOE to the Government; that of modifying the regulations for price revision in public sector contracts to allow prices to be revised when there are regulatory changes or collective bargaining agreements that could not be foreseen at the time of the tender. These are elements that can lead to increases in labor costs, and that companies currently cannot affect.
From the employers, it is emphasized that it is an agreement between the employers and the workers, without the participation of the Government. It is something perfectly known by all, but that, in this case, the CEOE has a special interest in underlining. That it is a bilateral issue between the social partners, and without government intervention.
In the agreed agreement, to which "La Vanguardia" has had access, two elements are specified. On the one hand, that the additional increase based on inflation will be made annually, and will not be retroactive. That is to say, if in 2023 inflation is higher than 4% "a maximum additional increase of 1% will be applied with effect from January 1, 2024," says the document. In the following two years, the same rule will be applied in the event that inflation exceeds 3%, always without retroactive character.
