On June 18, business leaders and unions have announced an agreement in principle on the sector’s 18th collective agreement. The sector’s majority union federations signed the document including the CCOO Industria and the FITAG-UGT. The document will run for three years (2015 – 2017) and regulates working conditions for the sector’s 200,000 workers.
The document still awaiting approval by the sector’s delegates intends for a higher wage rise than that which is in the framework agreement recently signed between the social partners at the cross industry level. Below is listed the agreement’s key points:
- Salaries rise by 1% for 2015 (backdated to January 01), by 1.5% for 2016, and by 1.7% for 2017. The salary base will be recalculated and be used for future wage rises. The unions indicated that the numbers were at the higher end of the rang
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