Madrid (EFE).- Inditex has reached an agreement with the UGT and CCOO to set a minimum salary of 18,000 euros per year among its 36,000 employees in stores in Spain, an amount to which other concepts included in the provincial agreements related to seniority, variables, commissions or night work, among others.
As detailed by the unions, the majority in the largest Spanish textile group, this minimum salary of 18,000 euros per year will be for employees with less than 18 months of seniority, while for those who exceed that time in the company without reaching 4 years, it will rise to 20,000 euros, and for those who bring even more, it will reach 22,000 euros.
A “historic” agreement
The agreement, which the unions describe as “historic”, has also established a fourth tranche of a minimum of 24,500 euros for those who have positions of responsibility in the stores of all the Inditex chains, including Pull&ear, Stradivarius, Bershka, Oysho, Massimo Dutti or Zara Home.
With this agreement, which will be in force for three years, Inditex agrees to the union’s demand that the minimum wages be equalized between the different provincial agreements that govern the group for the personnel that work in retail establishments.
From January 1
The new minimum wages -which are for full days, prorated for other cases- will begin to be collected by the 36,000 employees in group stores in Spain with retroactive effect from January 1 and may be revalued in 2024 and 2025 according to the CPI actual from the previous year.
According to the unions, all workers will receive the incentive of up to a thousand euros agreed in December this month and the minimum percentage of the commission system for all chains will rise to 1.4%.
Likewise, other social improvements have been agreed, such as 450 euros for the birth of each child, up to 170 euros per month for childcare assistance per child and the same amount for payment of the nursery dining room; 200 euros per year in school supplies for each child between the ages of 3 and 18, up to 500 euros of help for university studies for each of them and 200 euros per month of help for each dependent family member, up to second degree, with degrees of dependency 1 and 2.
free weekends
The company has also committed to specifying common rules on criteria for applying sales commissions, particularly in the case of Massimo Dutti, and objectives and measures to reduce unwanted part-time employment, promoting an increase in part-time working hours.
In addition, the enjoyment of quality breaks (free weekends) will be regulated and the classification in the different chains of the group will be reviewed.
Regarding work on holidays and Sundays, for those worked outside the ordinary working day, 12 euros per hour plus one free hour will be paid, or 24 euros per hour without refund. For those who have Sundays included in their weekly schedule, 10 euros per hour will be paid.