85% of workers have already agreed to joint agreements so far in 2020

“The characteristic that prevails in the 2020 joint round is the diversity of actions agreed upon by union and business organizations in relation to the wage issue. While a set of sectoral collective agreements maintained the usual scheme of percentage increases in the scales for a period of one year, another proportion of agreements defined temporary wage increases less than one year through fixed amounts or percentages ”, indicates a report from the Ministry of Labor to which Ámbito agreed.

Currently, it is estimated that some 4.4 million registered salaried jobs in the private sector are covered by highly covered collective agreements. This number represents 83% of the jobs achieved by collective bargaining and 73% of the total registered jobs in the private sector.

"According to the information analyzed, until October 2020, 84% of the total salaried employment framed in agreements with high coverage (3.7 million jobs), has salary increases established by the joint 2020" analyzes the report.

Despite the high percentage of collective agreements, the labor portfolio warns that “a certain number of sector agreements that are in a particularly critical situation, which up to now, have not salary negotiations have started despite the expiration of their respective agreements. ”

The survey considers the agreements concluded until October 20, 2020. The estimate of the number of workers included in the Collective Bargaining Agreements (CCT) arises from a methodology developed by the Ministry of Labor, which combines the contents defined in the CCT with the information from the administrative records of the Integra do Previsional Argentino (SIPA) and the Registry Simplification System.

“So far, most of the sectoral joint ventures present two relevant milestones: the definition of the salary recomposition by the joint venture 2019 (including the treatment of the fixed sum by decree 14/2020) and the negotiation of a new salary agreement for this year. This report analyzes the scope of the new salary agreements in the total of salaried employment framed in the Collective Bargaining Agreements that cover 10,000 or more workers ”, the document indicates.

Of the agreements that signed salary increases by the 2020, those that agreed to be in force for a period of one year, represent 30% of the total labor relations with agreed salary increases and 25% of employment in wide coverage agreements (1.1 million jobs).

While the agreements that negotiated salary increases for a period of less than one year concentrate 70% of employment with agreed salary increases and 59% of employment in agreements with high coverage (2.6 million jobs).

On the other hand, the agreements that established salary increases through a fixed amount for all professional categories, concentrate 61% of the employment covered by agreements signed for a period of less than one year, and 43% of labor relations with salary increases agreed by the 2020 joint venture (1.6 million private registered wage earners).