The agreement on salary increases and subsidies in sectors subject to sectoral joint agreements entitled 2022-2023-2024 was signed today, Saturday January 01, 2022, between the UGTT and the UTICA.
The agreement stipulates, according to Echaab News, the following:
First: It is awarded to workers in sectors subject to sectoral joint agreements concluded between the structures of the two organizations:
- An increase in the base salary estimated at 6.5% for 2022. This increase will be applied to the base salary for the year 2019 and will come into force from December 1, 2021. It will be distributed according to the approved distribution method in 2019.
- An increase in the base salary estimated at 6.75% for the year 2023. This increase will be applied to the base salary for the year 2022, and it will come into force on January 1, 2023. It will be distributed according to the method distribution approved in 2022.
- An increase in the base salary estimated at 6.75% for 2024. This increase will be applied to the base salary for the year 2023, and it will come into force on January 1, 2024. It will be distributed according to the distribution method approved in 2023 .
- An increase in the monthly grants of a permanent and general nature from which all employees of the establishments benefit and provided for in each sectoral joint agreement, of 6.5%, for the year 2022. This increase applies to grants awarded in 2019 and will enter into force from December 2021.
- An increase in the monthly subsidies of a permanent and general nature from which all the employees of the establishments benefit and provided for in each sectoral joint agreement, at the rate of 6.75% for 2023. This increase applies to the subsidies granted in 2022 and will come into effect effective January 1, 2023.
- An increase in the monthly grants of a permanent and general nature from which all employees of the establishments benefit and provided for in each sectoral joint agreement, at the rate of 6.75% for the year 2024. This increase applies to grants awarded in 2023 and will come into force on January 1, 2024.
- a- The establishments and sectors implement the agreements they have concluded prior to the signing of this present.
b – If what was allocated by the establishments during the years 2020 and 2021 was lower than what was provided for in the first and fourth paragraphs of this agreement, the difference will be charged to the effect of December 2021.
It is not necessary to combine the increases for the year 2022 with the increases or advances granted by the institutions during the years 2020 and 2021.
Second: This contractual increase for the years 2022-2023-2024 will be allocated to employees subject to sectoral joint agreements whose amendments include provisions providing for the withdrawal of these salary increases to employees who receive income higher than those set in the salary scales annexed to sectoral joint agreements.
This increase is also attributed on an exceptional basis for the years 2022-2023-2024 to employees subject to sectoral agreements whose amendments do not include provisions providing for the withdrawal of this increase to employees who receive salaries higher than those set in the grids. of wages.
Third: Amendments to the sectoral joint agreements will be issued, relating to base salary increases and subsidies for the years 2022-2023-2024 agreed in accordance with this agreement, provided that they are signed by the structures concerned at the latest. January 31, 2022.
Fourth: Undertake to respect sectoral joint agreements and not to claim any salary increase or demands having a financial impact during the period covered by this agreement.
Fifth: The negotiations will start to review the sectoral joint agreements in their regulatory and financial aspects at the sectoral level, before the end of October 2024.
Sixth: Negotiations continue on the revision of the degree value of the salary scales annexed to the sectoral joint agreements at the central level within the framework of the Central Negotiating Committee, in application of the seventh paragraph of the agreement of March 10, 2017 and the sixth paragraph of the agreement of September 19, 2018.
Seventh: Problems that may arise from the implementation of all the provisions of this agreement are examined by the Central Committee, composed of five members from each of the two central trade unions, in addition to representatives of the Ministry of Social Affairs.
