The CCOO and UGT unions and the CEOE and Cepyme employers’ organizations signed a pact preventing collective agreements that haven’t been renewed from becoming null. The recent labor market reform put an end to the principle of ultraactividad, i.e. the extension of expired agreements. 1,200 collective agreements that had not been renegotiated could have ended on July 8, 2013. The agreement signed on May 23 puts an end to several months of tension between the social partners. It recommends an additional deadline to renegotiate the collective agreements and appeal to mediation/arbitration when there is a block. (Ref. 130345)
July 8, the deadline for 1,200 collective agreements that have not been renegotiated. Employers and union are facing a completely new situation because of the 2012 Labor Act which amended the way collective bargaining works. It provides that collective agreements that haven’t been renegotiated the year after they expire will automatically become null, when they used to be systematically extended until a new agreement was signed, by virtue of an “ultra-active” (“ultra-actividad”) clause.
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