The agreements concern the grounds on the ground and not the navigating staff, while the whole sector is disturbed this summer by shortages of staff and hostesses, stewards or pilots in airlines.
Le Monde with AFP
Two agreements to revalue all minimum wages in air transport and simplify the classification grid of the branch were signed by the social partners, the National Federation of Aviation and its professions (FNAM). These agreements were signed “by four of the five representative trade union organizations within the branch, namely the CFDT, the CGT, the CFE-CGC and the UNSA” which weigh all 75 % of the votes, was delighted FNAM, main professional organization in the air sector.
The new salary agreement concerns ground staff and not navigation personnel, and is assimilated to catching up, while the minimum wage has increased significantly recently, and the whole sector is disrupted this summer by staff shortages and Hotel strikes, stewards and pilots in airlines.
This agreement provides for a revaluation of the first seven wages of the grid up to 6 %, “an annual increase between 1,100 euros and 1,417 euros for employees on these first levels,” said FNAM .
“More than 11 % above the current annual minimum wage”
This is the second time this year that the minima of the branch have been reassessed. “Last January, the FNAM had ratified a first salary agreement aimed at revaluing the lowest wages of the grid with regard to the impact of the increase in the minimum wage,” recalled the employers’ organization. This time, it is the increase in 1 er May that was reflected. With this new agreement, the minimum remuneration of an employee of the first step is increased “to more than 11 % above the current annual minimum wage”, ensures fnam.
The minimum wage must again be reassessed by 2.01 % at 1 er August due to inflation which increased to 5.8 % in June.
The deputy general delegate in charge of social affairs at FNAM, Hélène Clavé, was delighted with the signing of these two agreements. She praised a quality social dialogue “which made it possible to find a compromise despite the fragile, unstable and uncertain economic context of the sector”, according to a press release.
Like many other sectors, the air is struggling to recruit to meet growing demand with the end of travel restrictions linked to the Pandemic of Covid-19.