If there are no last minute surprises, the V agreement for sports facilities and gyms will be a reality next Tuesday, June 13. Employers and unions have met again to sign the final text of the agreement that day after having reached a preliminary agreement today that, as they have learned 2playbookis not unanimous.
One of the entities representing businessmen, The Spanish Association of Entrepreneurs of Sports Services of Public Administrations (Aeesdap) has decided not to sign this agreement. The reason for this position is the existing disagreement with some key points of the negotiation. This employers’ association considers that none of the parties have responded to requests that were essential for better regulation and adaptation of the agreement to the situation of companies that provide sports services to administrations.
One of the points of contention and that raised the tension in the last meetings was the retroactive nature of the measure. If signed, The new agreement will be in force from May 1, that is to say, that the companies must compensate in the last month the salary difference that corresponds in relation to the previous agreement. While the employers demanded that it enter into force from the moment of signing, the union part demanded that the new salary tables and the rest of the measures in the text be retroactive with effect from January 1.
He transport plus was one of the main points of contention. Aeesdap wanted to introduce it within the salary and for it to be proportional to the salary of each worker. Finally, there will be a proportional rise. In the case of the transport bonus, a payment of 2.8 euros per day has been agreed for 2023, 2.9 euros per day for 2024 and 3 euros in 2025. You pay for going to work, regardless of hours of employment. This represents increases of 8.5%, 12.4% and 16.2%, respectively, in relation to the transport bonus that was agreed in the previous agreement, which was 2.58 euros. It is currently at 2.63 euros.
Despite Aeesdap’s refusal, the agreement may move forward because the other two employers’ associations, Fneid and the Spanish Association of Golf Courses (Aecg), have sufficient representation. Together with the two unions, UGT and CCOO, they have signed a preliminary agreement that each of the entities must ratify in the coming days at the different assemblies or meetings of the board of directors.
The pre-agreement signed does not include changes in relation to the salary tables that 2playbook advanced last May for the 2023-2025 triennium. The new proposal, with increases unrelated to the CPI, raises the minimum salary of a general director or manager to 19,051 euros per year, which represents an increase of 17.7% in relation to the figure that has been dragging on from the previous agreement for the group 1. For group 2, the rise is 15.5% for the medical department and 11.9% in the case of nurses, physiotherapists and maintenance managers. For group 3, the increase for coordinators is 6.5%, while that for multidisciplinary sports technicians is 4%.
For the lower categories the percentage increase is lower. In group 4, the increase contemplated is 1.5% in the case of level 1, it includes sports technicians, lifeguards, janitors and cleaning managers; and 0.5% in the case of level 2, which integrates administrative assistants and access controllers. For group 5, which includes cleaning staff and maintenance laborers, the increase with respect to the SMI is 0.2%.
The increase percentages for the next two years in which the agreement will be in force are uniform for the rest of the categories. The update for 2024 foresees a rise of 2%. Looking to 2025, the increase is double, 4%. This means that, with respect to the figures carried over from the previous agreement, a group 1 worker who receives the minimum contemplated in the agreement will see his salary increased by 22.4% over these three years, up to 19,818.96 euros. In the case of category 3.2, which is the one that includes the most workers in gyms, the rise in the next three-year period if these tables are approved would be 10.3%, up to 16,680.87 euros. For the lowest category, the increase would be 6.3%.
Another aspect to which an agreement has been reached is in terms of occupational health. The unions have managed to get employers to accept that there is a reinforcement in terms of occupational health surveillance, which should translate into more in-depth physical evaluations and reviews for workers, so that health problems derived from their work activity can be detected and recognized. This point also includes greater care and protection for women, with more specific medical examinations during pregnancy.
On the other hand, it has also been agreed in advance that discontinuous permanent contracts can be considered part-time. Other aspects related to the articles and that facilitate the organization of work were also agreed, such as the regulation of vacation periods. If until now they could distribute the 23 days of vacation in two periods, now they will be able to do it in three. One of these periods will have a minimum of 15 days. The remaining eight days will not need to be enjoyed all at once, but can be divided into two periods of a minimum of three days.
