National Collective Bargaining Agreement for the Metalworking Industry – Minimum contractual requirements in force from June 1, 2023 – Effects
- Studio Piceci
- June 19, 2023
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Update: June 20, 2023
News Flash No. 18/2023
Subject: National Collective Labor Agreement of February 5, 2021, for the metalworking and plant installation industry – Minimum contractual terms in force from June 1, 2023 – Effects
On June 16, 2023, Federmeccanica officially announced that the parties to the National Collective Labor Agreement for the sector had formalized the new increases in minimum wages, updating the values of the travel allowance and on-call allowance.
It has been noted that the HICP (Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices for European Union countries) for 2022, net of major energy costs, was 6.6%, which is higher than the percentage increase in the minimum wage already planned.
As per News ref. no. 23 of May 17, 2021, in line with the function of the CCNL (national collective labor agreement) to guarantee the TEM (minimum wage), the rule has been reiterated that expressly provides that increases in the minimum wage absorb any fixed amounts that may have been recognized in the company after January 1, 2017, thus protecting the role entrusted to company bargaining in the distribution of any wealth produced, with the exception of remuneration amounts recognized in relation to the manner in which the service is performed (overtime, night work, shifts, holidays, multi-week hours, etc.). At the same time, the CCNL provides for the absorption of individual increases recognized, again after January 1, 2017, unless these are increases granted with an express clause of non-absorbability.
The contractual organizational model introduced in 2016 reserved for national bargaining (carried out solely by the social partners signing the collective agreement) the function of implementing minimum guarantees over time , also as a result of the aforementioned absorptions, while entrusting company bargaining with a redistributive function solely through "fully variable performance bonuses'.
Consequently, the new minimum wage rates confirmed below will apply from June 1, 2023 (see last column on the right):