The framework agreement on 2017 wage recommendations is within reach. At least this is what Juan Rosell, president of the employers CEOE confederation, has been repeating over recent weeks. Unions had set an end date for July and beyond that the CCOO and UGT would accept the absence of a wages pact. For some time now the social partners are meant to have signed such an agreement, which all the more important as it operates as a guideline for the currently suspended territorial and sectoral agreement negotiations.
While the CCOO and UGT unions are calling for salary rises of between 1.8% and 3.0%, the CEOE and Cepyme (SMEs) employers’ bodies want to keep wage rises between 1% and 2%, with an additional half a percentage point linked to productivity per sector. Unions reject this type of flexibility and are looking for a significant rise in the floor, fully aware that as they have done in the past many employers will adjust to the floor rate and apply the minimum 1% rise, which risks wages rising by...
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