Ibercaja Banco

Jan 26, 2023

January 25, 2023 CECA, the banking employers of CaixaBank, Unicaja Banco, Abanca or Ibercaja, and the unions that signed the collective agreement for the savings sector, FINE, CCOO and UGT, have reached an agreement that contemplates the creation of a new salary concept that will be incorporates into the collective agreement on a recurring basis and which represents an increase of 4.25% by 2023 on the base salary of the agreement, as reported by Europa Press. The number of bankers who charge more than one million euros in Spain shoots up 73% in one year More In addition, a minimum increase of 1,000 euros has been established for all workers and is in addition to the 1% increase already provided for in the current agreement, which is valid from 2019 to 2023. In this way, the employers’ association that represents entities such as CaixaBank, Unicaja Banco, Abanca or Ibercaja joins the rest of the banking sector associations, such as AEB, Unacc and Asemecc, in reaching an agreement to alleviate the effect of inflation on the templates. Both in the case of banks and credit cooperatives and savings banks, the increase agreed for 2023 has been 4.5%. This labor agreement will affect the 64,000 employees of CaixaBank, Abanca, Unicaja Banco, Ibercaja Banco, Caixa Ontinyent, Colonya Pollença and Cecabank, and has been reached with more than 75% of union representation, held by the FINE, CCOO and UGT unions . In a joint note, the union organizations point out that this revision of the current agreement covers their “insistent demands” to mitigate the pressure that inflation is exerting on the salaries of workers in the savings sector. However, they point out that this agreement “does not put an end” to their claims, which they will put back on the table in the coming months with the “early opening” of the next collective agreement. It should be noted that last week, the unions had called mobilizations at the headquarters of the main entities attached to CECA to request this salary review and coinciding with the presentation of 2022 results.