Union organises protest over pay in care sector

Spain

Federations in the CCOO confederation will organise a protest on 7 March over the refusal of employer associations in the nursing homes and home care sector to update the salary tables for 2022. The collective agreement for the sector links pay to inflation and the increase for 2022 should be 6.5% based on the inflation index to December 2021. The federations are highly critical of the employers’ refusal to properly apply the salary revision clause that has not raised any problems in recent years and of their block on negotiations. They underline the urgent need for a pay rise in the sector where working conditions have become significantly precarious in recent years, with particular problems around staffing during the COVID pandemic. The unions also underline that the significant increase in government funding for the sector means private employers have no excuse for not boosting pay for this highly feminized sector.

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