“It is worth noting that in previous years the banks always compensated for inflation, and this year they promised to do it again,” they emphasized.
According to these sources, “the union’s intransigence prevented banks from charging tomorrow, Thursday, with an increase of 15% retroactive to January and 27% from April, reaching 55% in October. In other words, the banks would pay in accumulated in April, 15% of the salaries for January, February, March and April, and another 12% on April.”
The bank statement
The Banking Associations (ABA, ABE, ADEBA and ABAPPRA) consider it a priority to maintain the purchasing power of the salaries of employees in the sector. Along these lines, and within the framework of the wage negotiations that have begun, they offered today a 55% increase in installments to be agreed upon, with the commitment to meet to review it in the last quarter of the year or earlier if the evolution of the price index exceeded that increase.
The entities and the union representation agreed in recent years to raises that fully recognize inflation, thus preserving the income of bank employees. Thus, for example, in 2019 and 2020 bank salaries increased by the same variation as annual inflation (53.8% and 36.1%, respectively) and in 2021 they grew by 51%.
Although the proposal made by the Banking Associations for 2022 of an increase of 55% with review, implies an improvement in the real salary of bank workers from today and seeks to avoid any inconvenience in customer service at branches, the offer was rejected by the union representation. In this regard, the banks reaffirm their commitment to maintain an open dialogue in order to reach a favorable agreement and avoid affecting the use of banking services by our users.
Given the force measures announced for this Thursday, April 28, the banks ask customers, in cases where it is possible, to postpone any face-to-face procedure tomorrow. Likewise, the entities remind that they will function normally through electronic channels, such as home-banking, bank applications and electronic wallets, as well as the use of debit and credit cards.
The Banking Associations highlight and ratify the will to reach an agreement between the workers and businessmen, which has been the common denominator in the sector in recent years.
Source: Ambito
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