The retail sector trade union in Argentina has reached an annual salary agreement with the country’s government and employers’ chambers. By striking the deal, the largest trade union in the country, which brings together 1.2 million workers, has paved the way for further agreements in the private sector, with this particular salary agreement providing a standard for other sectors. The deal provides for a wage increase of 20% over the year and a clause allowing for negotiations to re-open depending on the inflation rate, the latter being a specific feature of this salary negotiation (‘paritaria’).
The increase will occur in two stages: an additional 10% will be paid from April to June 2017, with another 10% added from July onwards. The agreement, which has been seen by Planet Labor, stipulates that: “The parties to this collective agreement commit to meeting in October 2017 and January 2018 to analyse potential economic changes that occur following the present salary agreement’s entry into force and which may affect the scale used; if such is the case, marginal adjustments can be made wh
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