All the employers in the Dependency Sector have signed an agreement with the CCOO and UGT unions for the signing of the VIII State Framework Agreement for Care Services for Dependent Persons and Development of the Promotion of Personal Autonomy.
This agreement will provide the sector with stability for the next three years and will guarantee important improvements in wages and working conditions for Dependency care professionals, since it establishes a 4% salary increase for workers by 2023. In 2024, the increase will be 2.5%, and another 2.5% in 2025, including a salary update clause of up to 12%. These increases are added to the 6.5% already applied in 2022.
The employers of the Dependency Sector and the CCOO and UGT unions have signed an agreement on the VIII State Framework Agreement for Care Services for Dependent Persons and Development of the Promotion of Personal Autonomy
Both the employers AESTE, ASADE, CEAPs, FED and LARES like trade unions CCOO and UGT congratulated themselves on the signing of the VIII State Framework Agreement for Care Services for Dependent People and Development of the Promotion of Personal Autonomy.
As stated by the president of the Círculo Empresarial de Atención a la Dependencia (CEAPs), paschal ribbon, “Today we are all happy, both businessmen and professionals, for having achieved sign a historic deal which puts an end to four and a half years in which the pandemic has made it difficult to resume negotiations”. The president of the CEAPs has ensured that “It is time to look ahead, to walk all together, to empower those professionals first class and how happy they make the people they care for”. “Today it is only time to congratulate each other. It is a point that the sector needed to move forward ”.
For , improve the working conditions of professionals in the Dependency sector supposes, in a correlative way, to enrich the quality of life of the users of these services and with this agreement it is demonstrated that the employers “It is on the side of the users and also of the workers, since without them the system does not work”stressed Cinta Pascual, who is confident that “This important impulse encourages new professionals to join the activity in the sector”.
The Madrid Dependency Care Association () highlights the main points of the VIII State Framework Agreement for Care Services for Dependent People and Development of the Promotion of Personal Autonomy:
- The validity of the agreement is from 2019 to 2025, although for the purposes of the articles it will apply from January 1, 2023
- remuneration:
2022. 6.5% increase in all concepts
2023. 4%
2024. 2.5%
2025. 2.5%
The update clause in the event that the sum of the CPIs for the years 2023 to 2025 is greater than 9%, and with a maximum of 3 points (up to 12%), which would act on salaries for the year 2026.
- Working dayapplicable in all sectors of the Convention:
– Reduction of the 8-hour day for the year 2024
– Reduction of the 12-hour day for the year 2025.
- structure of thecollective bargaining. The need for authorization from the Joint Commission for the opening of new business areas at the regional and provincial levels is abolished. Only prior communication is needed.
- Update normative of the Agreement, especially in terms of equality and hiring, adapting to the latest legal reforms.