The Spanish employers’ association meets today to ratify the pre-agreement for a salary increase

The Spanish employer CEOE has summoned for this Monday his executive committee to, predictably, approve the pre-agreement for a salary increase agreed with the UGT and CC unions. oo. The last friday.

Both parties have continued negotiating this weekend the “fringes” to close the agreement on collective bargaining and employment that will include the recommendation of raise wages by 4% in 2023 and 3% in 2024 and 2025, with the possibility of adding up to 1% each year depending on the rise in prices.

“At this moment we are close to the agreement, although there are details, and some of them of depth, to be finalized throughout this weekend,” the general secretary of CC said on Friday. oh, unai deaf. The union leader advanced that This week the union bodies will meet to ratify the agreement if it finally arrives.

For his part, the general secretary of the UGT, Pepe Alvarezindicated that the final text “is still being prepared”, although he acknowledged that there were “prospects of an imminent agreement”, because it was “quite closed”.

The negotiation of a new agreement for employment and collective bargaining (AENC) had been stagnant since May 2022when employers refused to include salary review clauses linked to inflation to guarantee purchasing power, something that the unions demanded.

The CEOE also rejected that this negotiation framework included an increase for 2022, that is, retroactively, something that is ultimately left out of the agreement, although Sordo pointed out that the agreement “does not waive” these possible retroactive improvements.