Construction: preliminary agreement to create the first collective pension plan

CNC, CC.OO. Habitat and UGT.-FICA agree on a salary increase of 10% spread over three years 2025 and regulate the new indefinite contract assigned to work.

The employers and the construction unions have reached a "historic" pre-agreement within the framework of the VII General Agreement of the Construction Sector to promote the creation of the first sectoral collective pension plan, that would be formalized as long as the project of Regulation Law for the Promotion of Employment Pension Plans collects ambitious incentives committed by the Government.

In that case, the National Confederation of Construction (CNC), CC.OO. Habitat and UGT-FICA have agreed that companies make contributions to this sectoral pension plan as a complement to the public pension system, incorporating a new historic improvement of a marked social nature into the sector.

Equally, in this pre-agreement employers and unions have agreed on a wage increase for workers in the construction sector of the 4% for 2022, of the 3% for 2023 and of 3% for 2024, of which a part would be used for contributions to the Pension Plan promoted.

Namely, although the temporary scope of the agreement is established until 2027, This pre-agreement includes salary increases for the next three years, establishing a salary guarantee clause subject to the economic situation in Spain in this period.

labor framework

The VII General Agreement of the Construction Sector will also regulate the indefinite contract assigned to work, will establish a maximum period of duration of the temporary contract due to production circumstances of one year -perceiving at the end of the same a compensation of 7%-; and will regulate the discontinuous fixed contract in relation to the duration of the period of inactivity and the amount to be received in the event of contracts, subcontracts or for reasons of administrative concessions. Likewise, employers and unions have agreed on the creation of a sectoral employment exchange and the regulation of forced retirement, among other measures.

likewise, training contracts are developed with regard to their remuneration and duration to obtain professional practice appropriate to the level of studies.

Success of social dialogue

The preliminary agreement is signed in a context of long-standing negotiating tradition of the social agents, since the 10 april 1992 the signatory Organizations of this Pre-Agreement signed the I General Collective Agreement of the Construction Sector.

Since then, social agents have provided a social peace that has surpassed, in recent years, crises as significant as the financial one of 2008 and that derived from Covid-19 in 2020.

CNC considers that this pre-agreement is a success of social dialogue and that its signing implies an exercise of co-responsibility in the negotiation, especially taking into account the problems that the sector is currently suffering as a result of the energy crisis and rising costs, that are suffocating many construction companies.

Definitely, the preliminary agreement reached between the President of the CNC and the Secretaries General of CC.OO. Habitat and UGT-FICA will be integrated into the VII General Collective Agreement of the Construction Sector (CGSC). Said Pre-Agreement must be submitted to the Governing Bodies of said Organizations for the purposes of their ratification., as well as its subsequent development and implementation.