News Flash No. 18/2023
Subject: February 5, 2021 Collective Bargaining Agreement for the Metalworking and Plant Installation Industry - Contractual minimums effective June 1, 2023 - Effect
On June 16, 2023, Federmeccanica officially announced that the parties to the industry's National Collective Bargaining Agreement formalized the new minimums increases, updating the values of the travel allowance and on-call allowance.
In fact, it was noted that the HICP (Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices for the Countries of the European Union) for 2022, net of important energetics, was 6.6 percent, thus higher than the percentage increase in the tabular reference minima already planned.
As per Federmeccanica's News prot. no. 23 of May 17, 2021, consistent with the CCNL's function of guaranteeing TEM, the rule has been reiterated that expressly provides that increases in minimum tabular absorb any fixed figures that may have been recognized in the company after January 1, 2017, thus protecting the role entrusted to company bargaining of distribution of the wealth that may have been produced, remaining excluded from the absorptions the remuneration amounts recognized in relation to the mode of performance (overtime, night, shifts, holidays, multi-week schedule, etc.). At the same time, the CCNL provides for the absorption of individual increases recognized, again after January 1, 2017, unless they are increases granted with an express non-absorbability clause.
The contractual organizational model introduced in 2016 reserved for national bargaining (carried out only by the social partners who are stipulating the collective agreement) the function of realizing guarantee minimums over time also as a result of the absorptions mentioned above, while it entrusted corporate bargaining with a redistributive function solely through "totally variable performance bonuses".
Accordingly, below confirmed the new tabular minima as of June 1, 2023 (see last column on the right):