Since 16 June, Portugal’s major retailers has a new collective agreement where workers will enjoy a 2% wage rise as well as arrangements to be implemented that will allow for equivalences between the various employment statuses of the different sector’s different professions. After a year of tough negotiations, union demands have finally been satisfied. Portugal’s retailing business body, APED welcomed the sense of ‘union responsibility in terms of coming to a constructive solution.’
A new collective agreement. The retail sector’s new labor agreement (CTT in Portuguese) was under negotiation for more than a year. The sector had been governed by a 2010 collective agreement. Negotiations had been over securing significant wage rises following years of crisis driven wage freezes.
Wage rises and hierarchy wage bands. The centrist UGT union as well as the Communist leaning CGTP union signed an agreement that provides for a 2% wage rise. As requested by the CGTP the wage increase
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