The Central Romana company and the United Workers Union signed a new Collective Pact for working conditions, which includes an 18% salary increase for the next three years, which will benefit more than 20,000 employees.
The agreement, which has been renewed for more than 60 years, provides for a first increase of 7% retroactive to December 1 of this year, as well as 6 and 5% during the term of the agreement, until 2025.
It also contemplates the same proportion of increase in the other benefits derived from salary, including bonuses, Easter royalty, vacations and incentives that will equally benefit workers in the industrial area, as well as those in the agricultural area.
They also agreed to increase economic aid and salary advances in favor of workers due to marriage, birth of children and death of relatives.
“Today is a very important day because it is the culmination of a collective bargaining process, which brings with it a series of benefits in favor of workers,” he said.
general increases
In this new agreement, general salary increases are established each year, as the company has done in the last six decades, benefits that are always well above what the country’s labor regulations establish,” said Eladio Uribe, general director. of Human Resources of Central Romana.
He added that with this type of agreement or benefit, the corporation is clear that its human talent is its most important resource. For this reason, Central Romana once again reaffirms its commitment to the rights of each worker, guaranteeing job stability, maintaining respectful and fair employment-employer relations.
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The new agreement will benefit more than 20,000 workers in the agricultural and industrial area, in addition to contemplating economic aid for marriages, births of children, and sick leave to the personnel who work in the company.
On behalf of the United Workers Union, Miguelito Das, General Secretary of the United Union and the members: Luis Félix, Denis Roche, Jaime Martínez, Nicanor Peña Sena, Víctor A. Martínez, as well as Próspero Juan, union labor advisor, signed the agreement. .