ZARA in Spain may raise salaries for employees
2023.01.19 12:37
ZARA in Spain may raise salaries for employees
By Kristina Sobol
Budrigannews.com – Unions are contacting Inditex, the owner of Zara (BME:) to provide all employees at its stores in Spain with the pay raises and benefits that the retailer and its shop assistants in its northern Spanish hometown recently agreed upon, two union leaders stated on Thursday.
Following a strike during the “Black Friday” sales rush on November 24 and 25, the company announced in December that approximately 1,000 employees at Zara stores and other Inditex brands in A Coruna, where the fashion giant has its headquarters on the outskirts of the city, would receive 25% higher salaries this year.
The two largest unions in Spain, CCOO and UGT, which represent more than half of the employees working at Zara stores in the country, have begun negotiations with Inditex to provide pay raises and benefits to all Spanish shop assistants.
Alvaro Cajigal, a leader at UGT, stated, “We want for the better benefits and wages that Inditex agreed with shop assistants (in A Coruna) to be received by workers in all shops in Spain.”
Inditex had been separately negotiating wage agreements with workers in each province up until this point.
Lucia Trenor, a trade union representative from CCOO, stated, “We want to go to a negotiation where there is no discrimination in the payment of workers because they are in one Spanish region or another, or because they work in a Zara shop instead of shops belonging to the group’s other brands.”
According to Trenor, the unions want shopworkers’ salaries in Spain to rise by at least 6% and up to 25% this year to combat inflation.
A request for information regarding the new talks was not immediately answered by the business.
In November, Inditex and UGT and CCOO agreed to discuss additional benefits and pay a one-time bonus of 1,000 euros to all full-time shop assistants employed throughout Spain in February.
According to its annual report, Inditex employs 165,000 people in 177 countries, with a third based in Spain. In its 6,477 stores, approximately 86% of employees are women.
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