Madrid (EFE) % for 2024 and 2025.
According to EFE business sources, the agreement, the result of negotiations between companies and workers, has not received criticism.
After the committee meeting, the CEOE held a board of directors this morning that will have to approve a text that also contemplates the possibility of adding up to 1% each year of salary increases according to the rise in prices.
The negotiation of what will be the V AENC had been stalled since May 2022, when the employers refused to include salary review clauses linked to inflation to guarantee purchasing power, something that the unions were demanding.
The CEOE also rejected that this negotiation framework included an increase for 2022, that is, retroactively, something that ultimately falls outside the agreement.
Last Friday, the terms of an agreement that has continued to be worked on this weekend and still pending ratification from the union side came to an end.
UGT has met its executive this Monday and CCOO has called a meeting of the confederal committee tomorrow.
The AENC serves as an indication in the negotiations of agreements setting recommendations for salary increases; as well as other aspects related to the organization of work.
The previous IV AENC applied to the 2018-2020 period and the negotiations of the following framework have been affected by the blow of the pandemic and by the subsequent inflationary crisis.
Alberto Garzón: “What we have to do is raise wages and curb business margins”
The Minister of Consumption and federal coordinator of the IU, Alberto Garzón, described this Monday as “positive” the pre-agreement reached between the UGT and CCOO and the CEOE-Cepyme employers’ association in the collective bargaining, because “what we have to do is raise wages and stop and moderate business profit margins”.
In statements to journalists, the minister stated that the agreement “is fundamentally based on the increase in wages” -4% in 2023 and 3% for 2004 and 2025-, so “we must be in luck”.
Garzón, who has attended a meeting with groups in Malaga on healthy eating and responsible consumption, has argued that “for many years” there have been policies in Spain that “recommended lower wages to solve problems”, until the latest labor reform, when there was a “paradigm shift” that is oriented towards a salary increase.
“Each time