The OPZZ, the Trade Union Forum and the Solidarity Association have reached an agreement on an increase in 2022: wages in the national economy, including in the state budgetary sphere, minimum wage and pensions from the Social Insurance Fund.

Union headquarters consider that:

• whereas wage growth in the national economy should be not less than 8,5%;
• whereas the increase in salaries in the state budgetary sphere should be not less than 12%;
• minimum wage increase should be not less than 10.71%.
• the rate of valorization of pensions should be not less than the average annual price index for goods and services in 2021 as referred to in Article 89 of the Law of 17 December 1998 on pensions from the Social Insurance Fund, increased by at least 50% of the real increase in the average wage in 2021.

Notwithstanding the above, the employees’ party notes that it expects an additional increase in the tax-free amount and the employee revenue-raising costs and the establishment of a mechanism for their annual valorisation, which will be an important element of the increase in the net remuneration of the lowest earners.

In view of the inadequacy of the current system of valorisation of pensions, the trade union headquarters point to the need to system-guarantee the valorisation of the lowest pension benefits in such a way as to ensure that the purchasing power of those benefits is maintained, while taking into account the growth of the national economy.

The employees’ side reserved the right to adjust the proposed increases in wages and pensions in the event of a change by the government side of the projected macroeconomic indicators as the basis for work on the draft budget law for 2022.

Source: https://www.opzz.org.pl/opinie-i-analizy/polityka-gospodarcza/jest-porozumienie-central-zwiazkowych

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