Without agreement in Mercedes with which the company is free to compensate wages up to 80%

The negotiation period on the new Mercedes Temporary Employment Regulation File (ERTE) due to the lack of supply of parts has been closed without an agreement, with which the company is free from its offer to compensate wages up to 80%.

Last Friday the ERTE consultation period ended, but a two-day extension was decided after it was not possible to seal an agreement at the last meeting after UGT get off the hook of a text that had the majority of the works council thanks to the additional support of CCOO, Ekintza and PIM.

In that proposal, the company offered, among other issues, to complete the salary up to 80%, which improved its initial approach of not compensating the salary, with which the workers would receive more than 70% as established by the legislation for employees in ERTE.

With this proposal, Mercedes equaled the remuneration of the two previous ERTEs, also motivated by problems with semiconductor supplies. UGT, he agreed, distanced himself from the text because he wanted it to achieve the adhesion of one of the other trade union centers of the committee (ELA, LAB or ESK).

Faced with this deadlock situation, the management gave until this Tuesday to see if it was possible to achieve a greater union majority and thus be able to sign the proposal.

However, today’s meeting has repeated what happened on Friday: UGT has conditioned its signature on the inclusion of at least one of the other unions, but neither ELA, nor LAB nor ESK have wanted to do so, according to information sources. the company and unions.

In this way, the 30-day ERTE until June in Mercedes will be applied without an agreement, which leaves the decision of whether or not to supplement wages in the hands of the company.

It’s a statement THE A He has criticized “misuse” of the ERTE in Mercedes and considered that “not normal” propose a regulatory dossier “when you have worked you days more and planned to work Saturday” to meet a production target “record and unreal”.

For your part LABwho has recalled that Mercedes had a profit of 276 million euros, has defended that before the ERTE “other measures could be adopted, such as lowering work rates -always maintaining employment-“, which “would even improve the working conditions of the template instead of making them worse”.