The employers of El Corte Inglés or Carrefour offer a salary increase of up to 10% in four years

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has put on the table a wage increase of up to 10% in the next four years for the 230,000 workers of companies such as

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In a context of inflationary pressures and macroeconomic uncertainty, employers commit to their staff to guarantee this "gain in purchasing power" during the term of the new agreement.

Specifically, at the meeting held this Friday, which kicked off the negotiations, the business organization has offered to add to this year's 2.5% salary increase, which is in line with the increase approved by the Government for civil servants, "guaranteed linear increases until the last year of validity,

Additionally, Anged has committed to the unions to "share business results, directly and year after year" through the consolidation of variable increases in tables,

at the end of the period of life of the new agreement.

"This 10% gain in purchasing power is Anged's commitment to its workforce during the term of the agreement, after two years in which, at a time of extreme difficulty, wage containment has gone hand in hand with maintaining employment" , they have affirmed from the employer's association.

In any case, Anged has guaranteed the representatives of the union organizations that 10%, through the establishment of "a guarantee in the event that there is no consolidated variable remuneration."

With these figures, the employers place their offer well below the demands of the unions, which have demanded wage increases of between 18% and 20% for the next four years, plus a single payment of 4% in 2023, to guarantee the purchasing power of workers in the face of escalating prices.

The employer thus confirms the position advanced by EL MUNDO and ensures that it is "a joint commitment, in line with what the unions have been demanding for several collective agreements, which does not take into account the excessive rise in costs associated with the activity (energy, logistics, products or raw materials, among others)".

In addition, during the meeting with the unions held this Friday, the association has shown that it is necessary to adapt the collective agreement to the new legal texts and address "pressing issues for trade such as the high rate of absenteeism, always from the commitment between unions and companies".

From Anged they remember that between 2013 and 2020 there was a real increase in purchasing power of 5.8%.

In other words, the salaries of associated companies rose 5.8% above the CPI.

Later, the pandemic and the war in Ukraine in 2021 and 2022 have meant "a very complicated challenge for the sector that, together with its union partners, on behalf of its workforce, have been able to give security to the first value: the working people," he says. the employer in a statement.

After this first meeting of a negotiation that is expected to be long, the employers insist that the set of legitimate union requests must go hand in hand with the consolidation of the sector, without losing sight of employment as the main asset and occupation of all the negotiating parties.

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