The EMT Madrid has a new collective agreement. The agreement, which was signed this Wednesday by the Madrid City Council and the unions, will improve the working conditions of the company’s more than 10,000 employees over the next four years and contemplates, among other aspects, salary improvements linked to productivity, working hours 35 hours per week and teleworking.
The delegate of Urban Planning, Environment and Mobility of the Madrid City Council, Borja Carabante, has presided over the signing of the new agreement at the EMT headquarters, where he explained that this text provides a framework of stability “both economic and labor “to all workers.
The new pact recognizes “unequivocally”, the nature of the Municipal Transport Company as a 100% public companywhile maintaining the commitment to a high level of job creation based on the needs of the service. Likewise, the agreement will continue to make partial retirement possible “under the best conditions permitted by law,” Carabante noted.
Regarding the remuneration policy, for the first time it will be oriented towards productivity improvement with a clear objective of reducing work absenteeism.
In this sense, Carabante has explained the salary cost of the EMT staff amounts to around 600 million euros, 80% of the company’s budget, which this year will reach 859.8 million euros. Of this amount, “the cost of the salary agreement represents approximately 5%” of the labor cost, that is, about 30 million euros until 2027.
To be on par with the rest of the Madrid City Council workers, this new agreement also contemplates the reduction of working hours up to 35 hours per week “in those positions where it is possible.” This reduction will be implemented gradually throughout this year, while time flexibility will also be improved and the teleworking two days a week in positions where this modality is possible.
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This agreement also improves social benefits, among which the free bicimad service for all EMT Madrid employees and the increase in items such as study aid fund or life and accident insurance.
“Therefore, full satisfaction in the government of the Madrid City Council for this agreement, for this social peace within the most important public company of the Madrid City Council, which is made up of 10,000 workers,” Borja Carabante added.
In 2024, EMT added 476 million passengers on municipal buses, setting an all-time record. The company has 229 bus lines, 36 of them completely electrified, and a 100% clean fleet of more than 2,100 buses.
The municipal company also manages bicimad, the public electric bicycle service that last year reached its maximum number of uses: 9.94 million trips, 2.31 million more than in 2023. In addition, it also deals with the management of parking and mobility hubs and towing service.
The municipal company’s spending budget for this year increases by 18.6 million euros regarding what is budgeted in 2024 to achieve objectives such as increasing bus service; improve the quality of customer service; continue with the electrification strategy and fleet renewal; transform the charging infrastructure of the Sanchinarro and Carabanchel operations centers and advance the urban development project for the future Las Tablas Operations Center.
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