At H&M, they are ending their strike after agreeing to a salary increase and an incentive of 50 euros per month

CC.OO. and UGT they achieved the principle of agreement with direction H&M improve working conditions and wages for the 4,000 workforce employees in Spain, including sales incentives for all store employees of up to €50 per month and an increase in facility staff.

In particular, the Comisiones Obreras pointed out that this agreement comes after the success of the mobilizations that they called together with the UGT in the middle of the sales campaign and that led to the closure of a hundred stores of the fashion brand in Spain. Thus, the two days of the strike, which were scheduled for July 1 and 8, were terminated.

In this way, the unions and the company, after intensive negotiations at the headquarters of the Interconfederal Service for Mediation and Arbitration (SIMA), reached an agreement in which wage improvements were included as sales promotion for all sales positions up to 50 euros per month, related to effective presence, which will be valid until 2025. CC.OO. It was specified that before its completion, a joint evaluation with the company will be carried out in order to see the conditions for the continuation of the incentive.

Plus, it’s guaranteed minimum liability plus per categoryapplicable to store manager, Head of Department, visual merchandiser and CORwhich is neither reimbursable nor repayable, and will be paid, proportionally to the working day, in 14 installments, beginning on July 1.

The sales advisors He will also have a salary increase from July 1, which will not be compensable or absorption, which will be spread over 14 months and whose value will be 1000 euros gross in the case of full-time work.

Employment

In terms of working conditions, the agreement includes a number of improvements with increased resources in stores with immediate effect, from The workforce will increase to 91 stores. Thus, for 60 part-time employees, contract novation will be carried out by combining supplementary hours and/or extensions of working hours actually achieved in the last five months, while the company withdrew the proposal to reduce sick pay and a commission was created to monitor this agreement.

Yesterday, the general secretary of CC.OO Services, José María Martínez, explained that the labor conflict taking place at H&M was due to «huge load and the bias that creates a absenteeism from work far above the average.” “The problem is the coordination of the schedule and the lack of staff,” he explained.

For its part, H&M Spain expressed its gratitude to all parties for the “constructive dialogue”, which made it possible to finally reach a “fair” agreement. “We also thank all the teams involved in guaranteeing business continuity during this period,” the company said in a statement.