Oviedo (EFE).- The 12,000 employees of the commercial sector in Asturias will see a rise of 2.9 percent reflected in their payroll this year and an equal percentage next year, according to the collective agreement agreed by employers and unions, which maintain the linear pay of one hundred euros per month that had been questioned by the large textile stores.
The difference between the agreed salary increase and the real CPI will be compensated by the companies by 50 percent this year and 70 percent in 2024, while the salary increase for 2025 remains pending what the table decides in the future negotiator, according to union sources after the agreement reached in the Asturian Service for Extrajudicial Conflict Resolution.
The agreement, which will be ratified tomorrow, also reduces the annual working day to 1,780 hours, guarantees breaks on Sunday and Monday every six weeks and the enjoyment of summer vacations between June 15 and September 15.
With this agreement, the two strike days that the UGT, CCOO, and USO still had scheduled are called off, which did not even hold the ones they had planned for Saturdays, April 8 and 15, due to the progress that took place in the negotiations during The last weeks.
The five days of strike had been called as a result of the fact that at the end of March the negotiations were broken due to the employer’s claim to eliminate from the agreement the article that regulates the payment of the bonus of 100 euros per month in businesses with more than 250 employees.
The Textile Trade Association stands out
The Association of the Textile Trade of Spain (ACOTEX), which defended that this supplement of 1,200 per year be extended to all stores or eliminated, left the negotiating table on April 10 due to the decision of the unions and the rest of the employers. to maintain that payment and to continue from there negotiating the collective agreement.
According to Acotex, the fact that said supplement is only charged by workers in companies with more than 250 workers without taking into account the principle of “same work, same salary”, goes against wage equality, a principle that will be defended in the judicial.
The trade unions and the Asturian employers, however, once they reached a “firm agreement to continue the plus of one hundred euros”, continued to negotiate the rest of the agreement, considering that they had the legitimacy to do so, outside of ACOTEX. EFE