National Collective Bargaining Agreement (CCNL) for the Metalworking Industry – Contractual Minimums Effective from June 1, 2023 – Effects

Flash News no.18/2023

Subject: CCNL of February 5, 2021, for the Metalworking and Plant Installation Industry – Contractual Minimums Effective from June 1, 2023 – Effects

On June 16, 2023, Federmeccanica officially announced that the parties signatory to the National Collective Bargaining Agreement for the sector have formalized the new minimum wage increases, updating the values for travel allowances and on-call allowances.

It was indeed noted that the HICP (Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices for EU Countries) for 2022, net of significant energy components, amounted to 6.6%, thus exceeding the previously anticipated percentage increase in the reference minimum wage tables.

As per Federmeccanica News prot. no. 23 of May 17, 2021, in coherence with the CCNL's function of guaranteeing the Total Economic Treatment (TEM), the rule has been reiterated which expressly provides that increases in minimum wage tables absorb any fixed amounts that may have been recognized within the company after January 1, 2017, thereby protecting the role assigned to company-level bargaining for the distribution of any wealth produced. Remuneration amounts recognized in relation to the modalities of performance (overtime, night work, shifts, holidays, multi-weekly hours, etc.) remain excluded from absorption. At the same time, the CCNL provides for the absorption of individual increases recognized, also subsequent to January 1, 2017, unless these increases were granted with an express non-absorbability clause.

The contractual organizational model introduced in 2016 reserved for national bargaining (conducted solely by the social partners signatory to the collective agreement) the function of establishing guaranteed minimums over time also as a result of the aforementioned absorptions, while entrusting company-level bargaining with a redistributive function solely through “fully variable performance bonuses”.

Consequently, the new minimum wage tables effective from June 1, 2023, are confirmed below (see last column on the right):

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