Department stores will raise salaries by 1% to the more than 23,000 workers in the sector in 2022, according to union sources at the end of the meeting of the joint committee of the sector’s collective bargaining agreement. This rise is in line with expectations, but it is far from the 5% that Mercadona will raise salaries for its workers in accordance with inflation. Initially, the large distribution had proposed a rise of 0.5% for this year, but finally agreed to raise that percentage to 1%. The employer Anged recalls, in any case, that the increase is for base salaries but that later there may be increases.
Specifically, with this fixed salary increase, the salary tables of large commercial areas are updated until the negotiation of the next agreement signed by the National Association of Large Distribution Companies (Anged), which includes companies such as El Corte Inglés, Carrefour or Ikea , among other.
Salary tables
So after the aUpdating of the annual salary tables, the base category will receive a salary of 15,029.33 euros, while the salary of the professional category will be 15,480.21 euros, that of coordinator will stand at 16,873.41 euros, and that of technicians, at 18,392.04 euros. In this way, companies and groups will have until December 31, 2022 to make this increase effective, which will be applied from January 1 of this year. They must pay the fixed increase agreed before December 31 of said year, together with the corresponding arrears contributions.
Stability
From Fetico they have recalled that this agreement has given stability in the worst moment of the temporary employment regulation files (ERTE) and of the pandemic, but they have stressed that it is evident that the price increase puts all the force of its negotiation for the next year in a “significant salary increase” and to compensate for the “surprising rises in the CPI” that have suffered this year.
For its part, CC.OO. He stressed that the new agreement to be negotiated “will no longer be transitional” and stressed that it should reflect the work and professionalism of workers in the sector. Unions and employers last year reached an agreement in the agreement that had a transitory nature for 2021 and 2022, in which in addition to agreeing a 2% salary increase In the next two years, it also included new social rights such as teleworking, digital disconnection and the equal pay register, among others.
Large commercial areas will raise salaries by 1% to the more than 23,000 workers in the sector in 2022, according to union sources at the end of the meeting of the mixed committee of the sector’s collective bargaining agreement. This rise is in line with expectations, but it is far from the 5% that Mercadona will raise salaries for its workers in accordance with inflation. Initially, the large distribution had proposed a rise of 0.5% for this year, but finally agreed to raise that percentage to 1%.
Specifically, with this fixed salary increase, the salary tables of large commercial areas are updated until the negotiation of the next agreement signed by the National Association of Large Distribution Companies (Anged), which includes companies such as El Corte Inglés, Carrefour or Ikea , among other.
Salary tables
Thus, after updating the annual salary tables, the base category will receive a salary of 15,029.33 euros, while the salary of the professional category will be 15,480.21 euros, that of the coordinator will stand at 16,873.41 euros, and that of technicians, at 18,392.04 euros. In this way, companies and groups will have until December 31, 2022 to make this increase effective, which will be applied from January 1 of this year. They must pay the fixed increase agreed before December 31 of said year, together with the corresponding arrears contributions. From Fetico they have recalled that this agreement has given stability in the worst moment of the temporary employment regulation files (ERTE) and of the pandemic, but they have stressed that it is evident that the price increase puts all the force of its negotiation for the next year in a “significant salary increase” and to compensate for the “surprising rises in the CPI” that have suffered this year.
New agreement
For its part, CC.OO. He stressed that the new agreement to be negotiated “will no longer be transitional” and stressed that it should reflect the work and professionalism of workers in the sector. Unions and employers last year reached an agreement in the agreement that had a transitory nature for 2021 and 2022, in which in addition to agreeing to a 2% salary increase in the next two years, it also included new social rights such as teleworking, digital disconnection and the equal pay register, among others.
Last March, at the signing of the agreement, a commitment to the future of employment and the digital transformation of companies was also agreed with the creation of a Sector Observatory, in which union and company representatives will be able to analyze the structural changes, as well as the necessary measures to secure employment. The agreement reached also contemplates being able to work up to a maximum of 5 Sundays and holidays of non-commercial opening-
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