94% of Basque workers have an agreement in force, the best figure since 2012

Nearly 94% of Basque workers will have the agreement in force at the end of the first semester, the best figure since 2012, according to the report published by the Labor Relations Council (CRL).

52.9% of employees have an updated agreement, 40.9% have extended agreements and only 6.2% have a defunct agreement.

Therefore, the Labor Relations Council has emphasized that the collective bargaining at the end of June provides the “best” balance since the adoption of the 2022 labor reform. As the Council has emphasized, the pace of negotiations has been “intense” during the first six months. “, much higher than previous years.

Raise

The average salary increase agreed in the agreements registered in 2023 in the Basque Country was 4.67% at the end of the first half of this year.

In the case of the agreements negotiated in Euskadi, it amounted to 4.92%, while for the state-level agreements impacting Euskadi the increase was 3.82%. For corporate agreements the increase was 5.16%, while for sector agreements the increase was 4.60%.

At the end of the first half of the year, the average salary increase agreed for 2023 in the agreements in force in Euskadi was 4.06%.

The number of employees affected by this increase is approximately 320,806 people, 52.9% of the workforce, as the contracts of the remaining 47.1% would be extended or expired.

Strikes

As last year, collective bargaining remains the main cause of strikes. The conflicts arising from these bargaining processes were thus responsible for 89.6% of strikes and 85.1% of all days not worked in 2023, with 89.1% of all people involved in strikes.