3% salary increases have been agreed for the two years of validity of the agreement, 2024 and 2025, and a reduction of the annual working day by 12 hours.
After the signing of the pre-agreement, the strike announced by the trade unions for the next 4th and 5th of December is called off.
After a meeting of more than seventeen hours, held in the presence of a mediator, the business organizations ANICE, FECIC, AGEMCEX, ANAFRIC and ANAGRASA and the trade unions CC.OO., UGT and FIGA, have reached a pre-agreement for the signing of the next collective agreement that has allowed the deactivation of the call for the strike announced by the unions, for the 4th and 5th of December.
This pre-agreement, which must be endorsed by the governing bodies of the business organizations and the trade unions before November 30, focuses essentially on the following points:
- Validity of the Agreement: 2 years (from 01/01/2024 to 31/12/2025).
- Salaries:
-For the year 2024, it refers to the 3% increase agreement of the Agreement for Employment and Collective Bargaining (ANC), which will be applied to the final tables of the year 2023 and a salary review clause for deviations from the CPI, limited to 1% and without retroactive effect.
-For the year 2025, the provisions of the ANC have also been agreed and the increase will be 3%, with the same salary review clause for deviation from the CPI, limited to 1% and without retroactive effect. - Annual working day: From 1 January 2025, it will last 748 hours (this would mean a reduction of 12 hours on the current working day, in the annual calculation).
The signing of this pre-agreement will allow to clear up important unknowns for the future of the sector and its workers and provide stability to the plans of companies and their staff. This agreement affects more than 110,000 workers in one of the most important industrial sectors in our country.
The Spanish meat sector, made up of more than three thousand companies, most of them SMEs, represents 2.72% of the Spanish GDP, 27.3% of the GDP of the food industry and 4.53% of the total turnover of the Spanish industry.
With a turnover of 33.218 billion euros in 2023 and exports worth a total of 10.583 billion euros, the meat sector is one of the pillars of the Spanish economy, especially in rural areas, and is one of the main players in the challenge of depopulation.
