Representatives from both the employers and employees bodies worked well into ‘extra-time’ before eventually securing a ‘pre-agreement’, which, after ratification by the different trade unions’ leaderships, will become the fifth Catalonian Cross-Industry Agreement (AIC) 2018-2020. Pimec, Foment del Treball, Fepime, CCOO, and the UGT have signed the 62-page document that sets out a framework for collective negotiations within the region and addresses themes including salaries, professional equality, the right to disconnect, and sub-contracting, and affects some 25 different sector committees.
Salary compromise does feature in the document that takes up the new National Employment and Collective Negotiations Agreement (AENC) for the period 2018-2020 (c.f. article No. 10741). A UGT negotiator clarified, ‘This represents a first for Catalonia, and even if it is not explicitly laid out in the pre-agreement we are recommending a fixed percentage salary increase of around 2% as well as a flexible 1% element, mirroring the national agreements, so that we progressively reach a minimum month
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