Spain: unions and employers signed the 2007 framework agreement on collective negotiations

Employers' organizations CEOE and CEPYMES, together with the main unions UGT and CCOO, ratified, on February 6, the new agreement on collective negotiations (ANC 2007,) which continues the broad lines of the earlier pacts' scheme, agreed since 2002. Social partners accepted once more to make a pay restraint effort in order to try to contain inflation and defend job creation. They also committed to foster stable employment according to the Labour market reform signed with the government in May of last year (see our story n°06724). (Ref 070124)
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The 2007 ANC will stay in force all year long and will be renewed by tacit agreement during the year 2008 if the Spanish total economic conjecture does not change in a substantial manner. According to unions, the agreement will serve as a framework for the negotiation of 4,500 firm’s agreement which have to be examined again this year, affecting some 10 million employees. It is the tool notably used to establish the pay raise’s scale.

The text reaffirms the importance of the negotiation and dia

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