On 27 April the association of large retailers (ANGED) together with the trade unions FETICO (the sector’s majority union), FASGA, FESMC-UGT, and CCOO-Services announced that they had signed an agreement on the sector’s new 2017-2020 collective agreement. Employers’ and unions’ positions were able to compromise on salary rises and on restricting both Sunday and public holiday work.
All the trade unions approved the new agreement, which has secured significant improvements for all the sector’s workers and contrasts sharply with 2013 agreement that had been signed without all trade union approval at the height of the economic and financial crisis (c.f. article No. 130088), frozen all pay, raised annual working time, made Sunday working general, and allowed for work centers to apply worse conditions than set out in the agreement.
This new agreement runs from 2017-2020 and wil
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