MADRID, 27 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –

Employers and unions in the parcel sector have signed a new collective agreement for the next four years that provides for a wage increase of 2.5% in all categories, applicable from April 1.

This has been announced by the Spanish Association of Messaging Companies (AEM), which has agreed on this new text with the representative union of the messaging sector, the State Federation of Services of the Workers’ Union (FS-USO).

Among the rest of the conditions, the already fixed weekly schedule of 38 hours stands out, the inclusion of one more day of own affairs or the regulation of the effective daily working day, allowing the worker to be compensated for excess work and setting it at a maximum of 8 .5 hours a day with mandatory breaks.

“It is an agreement that we have extended from three to four years, beneficial for all, in a stable and growing sector such as messaging, since it allows us to work with legal certainty, and has been adapted to the needs and modalities of the new distributions, improving the conditions of the workers”, pointed out the president of AEM, Francisco Martínez.

The agreement also includes the possibility that shipments made with electric vehicles allow the courier to charge a higher percentage per delivery, in order to support sustainable distribution and motivate professionals to acquire this type of vehicle, which will allow them to unlimited access to all low-emission zones in cities.

On how the stoppages that have taken place in the transport sector have impacted the courier sector, AEM affirms that the increase in fuel is also affecting deliveries and has been left out of direct aid to transport companies. courier services, which still work with gasoline and diesel vehicles, and have been intended only for carriers.

“It is unfair that a sector that is growing and with a large number of vehicles, is not taken into account. Even more so when the price of fuel has risen an average of 32% compared to the previous year, without being able to affect anything in the supply chain, causing many couriers to close”, added Martínez.