Trade employees will receive a further 20% wage increase

The news was confirmed by Trade Employees trade unionist Benigno Gómez. The increase of 20% which adds to the 25% reached during the previous negotiation leaves a total of 45% between what remains of this year and March 2019.

Gomez explained in channel 12 that this new 20% increase in the wages of commercial employees will be given as follows: 7% more in January, 7% more in February and finally 6% in March. "This new increase, added to the results obtained a few months ago in the common conflict, totals 45%," said the official.

To this, he recalled that individuals are also obliged by law to pay employees the bonus of 5,000 pesos and that even if it is expected that they do so before the holidays and in January, the total is completed – 2,500 pesos each time – each company will do it in their own way. "The important thing is that help gets into the worker's pocket," said the unionist.

The official statement:

According to an agreement signed between the Argentine Federation of Trade and Services Employees, FAECyS, represented by its Secretary General, Armando Cavalieri, and the chambers of commerce of the sector, the employees of the trade will have another parity, a remunerative and non-profit increase. cumulative.

It will be paid that way; 7% of the total in January 2019, another 7% since February and the remaining 6% since March of the same year. With this figure, the salary increase of traders during the 2018 parity reaches 45%.

Regardless of what has been achieved during this negotiation, commercial workers will also receive the $ 5,000 bonus set by the national government.