Andorran Municipal Workers Demand Salary Updates and Uniform Conditions After Second Meeting
Representatives from four parishes highlight disparities in pay scales, hours, and unfulfilled traffic agent law implementation, planning broader coordination in April.
Key Points
- Municipal workers from four Andorran parishes demand salary grid updates and uniform conditions after second meeting.
- Disparities include outdated pay scales, varying triennial increments, and 37-40 weekly hours across parishes.
- Law 9/2023 on traffic agents unimplemented, delaying uniform standards in equipment and training.
- Plan April meeting with more parishes and positive response to forming USdA branch for staff.
Municipal workers from Andorra la Vella, La Massana, Ordino, and Escaldes-Engordany are pressing for salary grid updates, uniform working conditions, and stronger union coordination, following a second meeting held on Monday.
Representatives from SITCA (Andorra la Vella), SITCOLAMA (La Massana), the Ordino workers' platform, and Escaldes-Engordany delegates identified key disparities, including outdated salary scales unrevised for years, varying triennial increments, and weekly hours ranging from 37 to 40 across parishes. They called for harmonising compensation rules, advancing career progression, and standardising performance evaluations in communal administrations.
A major focus was the failure to implement Law 9/2023 of 30 January on municipal traffic agents. Parishes missed the deadline to align internal regulations through the inter-parish coordination body, delaying uniformity in uniforms, equipment, training, credentials, and public identification. Participants criticised the inter-parish commission for producing no tangible progress on these shared issues.
The group agreed to compile a detailed comparison of salary grids, triennials, and hours for analysis. They plan another meeting in April, inviting representatives from Canillo, Encamp, and Sant Julià de Lòria to broaden coordination.
Workers responded positively to an offer from Unió Sindical d’Andorra (USdA) to form a dedicated branch for local administration staff, with a formal reply expected soon. Separately, SITCOLAMA submitted a collective bargaining agreement proposal to La Massana's council, which was received favourably and awaits response.
Participants pledged to maintain joint efforts to address these labour challenges affecting municipal employees.
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