As iProfesional had anticipated, the employees in this union will receive a payment that will be 50% higher than in 2020
The Trade Employees Union, the most populous in the country, confirmed this Friday that there will be a juicy year-end bonus for employees of this activity.
From the union they indicated that “in order to neutralize the inflationary escalation, the high increase in the basic food basket and in order to reward the effort and commitment of those employees who faced the titanic task of performing their functions in supermarkets, wholesale supermarkets and department stores during the health emergency, the Argentine Federation of Commerce and Services Employees (FAECyS) set up a collective bargaining table to ensure that this group of merchants is rewarded with a new additional bonus on the occasion of the Holidays “.
In that sense, The General Secretariat urged each of the subsidiaries to request bonuses with increases of 50% compared to 2020.
Given that in 2020 the sum was $ 8,000, this year the bonus will be in the order of $ 12,000.
Commerce confirmed a year-end bonus and already notifies companies
The coming rediscussion
Likewise, the head of the union at the national level, Armando Cavalieri, has already started formal talks with the representatives of the main business chambers of the activity to renegotiate the joint agreement agreed last August.
“Through dialogue as an overcoming tool and through mature discussion, we will do everything in our power to bring relief and counterbalance the inflationary process that hits squarely at the table of our affiliates,” he said. .
“The application of the guarantee clause that we have already put on the agenda of the discussion has undoubtedly been instituted as an efficient device to protect pocket income of more than a million workers, “said the FAECYS driver.
It is worth remembering that in August Commerce it had been one of the first unions that, with an official wink, reopened its joint associations and readjusted its salary scale. At that time, he added 9% to the original agreement, plus a bonus of 4 thousand pesos. With this, he brought the parity figures for 2021/2022 to 42%.
After the new inflationary shot, the union idea is order an additional 10 points in January. With this they would achieve that the parity year exceeds 50% and is in tune with the consumer price index that marks the INDEC.
The negotiation on the end-of-year bonus will be the prelude to the subsequent general salary discussion of the activity
The salary negotiation of Commerce it is of special significance. It has a direct impact on almost 1.2 million registered wage earners, indirectly on many more, and is one of the pulses of the Argentine labor market that will begin to project what may happen in 2022.
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