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It looks like this year’s pay increases will be frozen on the inside.
The wage agreement in the industry expires the last of October. The new agreement was supposed to have already been signed this spring, but was postponed due to the corona pandemic. Meanwhile, the old has continued to function, with no pay increases.
And now it looks like there will be no retroactive pay increases for 2020. TT is experiencing this.
Mediators in industrial negotiations will only make a forward-looking salary offer, and unions have a hard time resisting, the news agency writes.
This means that few employees, with central collective agreements, can expect pay increases by 2020, as the industry sets the tone for the entire Swedish labor market.
This year’s salary is a big problem
One of the biggest problems in collective bargaining this year has been the salary issue: should employers pay salary increases during the last six months or not? Employers have claimed they can’t afford it, because the economy in many industries has taken a major hit during the corona pandemic.
The mediators now, according to Svenska Dagbladet, have submitted an offer to raise salaries by 4.5 percent. Okay, according to employers, very little, according to industry unions.
A higher final bid is expected this weekend.
The Confederation of Swedish Companies and LO when the collective bargaining movement was postponed this spring
