Furthermore, the average salary increase agreed in the current agreements was 4.22%, above the half-yearly CPI for 2023, which was 3.1%.
The past year 2023 was an exercise of ‘intense’ collective bargaining activity in the Basque Autonomous Community (CAV) and the year ended with 63.8% of the wage-earning population with up-to-date and fully effective agreements, which represents the highest percentage. since the entry into force of the 2012 labor reform.
The CAV’s Labor Relations Council (CRL) report for the months of November and December also shows that the average salary increase agreed in the current agreements was 4.22%, above the 2023 YoY CPI, which showed 3.1% to be. .
According to the CRL report, at the end of the year, 30.6% of employees had their contracts in a renewal situation and only 5.6% had their contracts expired and without coverage.
At the beginning of the year, the percentage of the wage-earning population whose agreements were renewed (27%) was similar to that of the previous year, but the agreements reached between trade unions and employers in 2023 made it possible to increase this percentage increase to 63.8% by the end of 2023. Complete the exercise.
Source: EITB

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