Consum will increase the salary of its operational staff between 1.7 and 2.5 percent depending on the professional category, applying a “solidarity pay” measure. This increase, which will begin to be applied from the payroll for the month of February, affects 89% of the workforce of the Valencian cooperative, some 16,408 people.
In total, this increase in salary represents an investment of more than 7.5 million euro. Consum’s operational staff is made up of the positions of seller, store operations manager, preparers, machinists, and administrative staff.
This salary increase is carried out according to the different salary indices of the operating personnel, so that the percentage increase “is greater the lower the salary, according to a solidarity criterion, which does not include the managers” of the company. The agreed increase is also applied to other concepts complementary to the salary, such as overtime, night hours outside working hours or hours on holidays (which are paid at double), among others.
In addition to the salary, the worker members of the cooperative receive annually the cooperative return that corresponds to them from the surpluses, in addition to the interest for their mandatory contributions to the share capital, concepts that in 2021 represented the global amount of 38.3 million euro and It would be equivalent to between one and two additional payments, depending on seniority as a working partner.
“It must be taken into account that this increase in the remuneration of operational personnel applies to each and every one of the salary concepts, and not only on the base salary, a differential factor in the distribution sector”, highlighted the Director of Personnel, Evarist Casany.
Consum closed its 2021 financial year with the creation of 940 new jobs and more than 3,800 reinforcement contracts for summer and Christmas holidays. In 2020, it created nearly 1,400 jobs, a record figure in the history of the Cooperative in the last decade.
In the last seven years, it has created 6,878 new jobs. Currently, it has more than 18,300 workers, of which 72% are women.
