PROPOLLO AND AMACO APPROVE THE STATE AGREEMENT ON BIRD AND RABBIT SLAUGHTERHOUSES

The signing of both agreements seeks a framework of stability to face the great challenges of the industry, including ensuring competitiveness at a time of maximum pressure due to the pandemic, as well as the need to open new international markets.

Madrid, November 26, 2020. From PROPOLLO (Interprofessional Association of Chicken Meat Poultry), With AMACO (National Association of Poultry, Rabbit and Poultry Cutting Plants Processors) we announce the approval of the State Agreement on Poultry and Rabbit Slaughterhouses, signed with the representatives of the UGT-FICA and CCOO Industria unions. Likewise, the State Poultry Farm Agreement for the period 2020-2022, which remained open at another negotiating table.

With the Slaughterhouse Agreement an important milestone is set for the poultry industry, as it lays the foundations for our sector's actions for the coming years. 5 years (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025), crucial in our transformation and adaptation to the impact of the crisis caused by the COVID19 pandemic.

In a context marked by uncertainty, with a general drop in prices, cost increases derived from the rise in raw materials, as well as additional costs assumed by increasing safety to prioritize the protection of the health of our workers, this agreement allows us allows us to focus on the measures necessary to overcome new challenges in a context of job stability.

It also supposes a important effort in economic matters for companies, as it provides salary increases that only in the Slaughterhouse Agreement will mean that by 2025 there will have been an increase of 25% in the labor costs of this segment of the value chain of the industry.

He Poultry Farms Agreement also incorporates salary increases based on the CPI, which will be of a 0.75% for 2020, 1.25% for 2021, and 1.5% for 2022. 

Sustainability and Internationalization in the face of market pressure

Our priority continues to be to strengthen our industry to be more competitive in the coming years, and above all to take the necessary measures to ensure the productivity and profitability of our operations, something that we consider essential to maintain the more than 40,000 direct and indirect jobs that we have. generates our sector. This also involves reinforcing the Premium image of our products, both in Spain and in other markets, with a strong commitment to investments in sustainability and digital transformation.

Furthermore, our associations consider that a significant effort has been made by companies to offer our workers a framework of guarantees and benefits that provide them with stability both them and their families in times as complicated as these.

Beyond the economic conditions reflected in the agreement, which incorporate progressive salary increases on an annual basis, the adoption of measures to encourage employment among the youngest, incorporate features that allow the family conciliation, improve the guarantee system when faced with health or family problems, or guarantee gender diversity.

He Slaughterhouse Agreement subscribed provides salary increases based on the evolution of the CPI, which apply to the entire period of validity of the agreement, and are based on a 1.5% increase for 2019; 0.5% for fiscal years 2020 and 2021; of 1,65% for 2022 and 2023; and 2,30% for 2024 and 2025. The “seniority” supplement is also absorbed into the base salary, amounting to a 2.6% annual salary increase. This package of economic measures is emerging as a pillar to consolidate an environment of medium-term stability among workers at a time of maximum instability. All of these measures will mean increasing labor costs by 25,77% at the end of fiscal year 2025.

Both agreements are pending publication in the BOE to be made official in their entirety.