In compliance with the mandate for the Government set out in Article 27.1 of Law 8/1980 of 10 March of the Staff Regulations, to set the minimum inter-professional salary annually, a new set of rules should be established. These amounts are to be calculated from 1 January 1988 for both fixed and temporary workers, as well as for staff at the service of the family household.

The new minimum wage figures mean an increase from the previous one of 4.5 per 100 and are the result of taking into account all factors of the official forecast of the consumer price index in 1988. This is surpassed by the minimum wage figures, such as the change in the overall productivity of the economy in the past year, and the participation of labor in national income is also being improved. The economic and social situation in the EU is of the same importance as the economic and social macroeconomic measures.

Consequently, prior consultations with the most representative trade union organisations and business associations, on a proposal from the Minister for Labour and Social Security and after deliberation by the Council of Ministers at its meeting on 30 December 1987,

DISPONGO:

Article 1. º

Minimum wages for any activity in agriculture, in industry and in services, without distinction of the sex of workers, are set in the following amounts:

1. Workers since eighteen years: 1,468 pesetas/day or 44,040 pesetas/month, depending on whether the salary is fixed for days or months.

2. Seventeen-year-old workers: 901 pesetas/day or 27,030 pesetas/month, depending on whether the salary is fixed for days or months.

3. Sixteen-year-old workers: 567 pesetas/day or 17.010 pesetas/month, depending on whether the salary is fixed for days or months.

In the minimum wages of this article, both the pay in money and in kind are computed.

Art. 2. º

The minimum wages set out in Article 1 are understood as referring to the legal working day in each activity, not including in the case of daily wages the proportional share of Sundays and public holidays. If the lower day is paid, pro rata shall be collected.

Art. 3. º

At the minimum wages referred to in Article 1, they shall be added, serving the same as the module in their case and as laid down in the Collective Agreements or sectoral rules:

The personal allowances of seniority, both of the expired periods and of those that expire after 1 January 1988.

Top-of-the-month periodic expiration supplements, such as overtime or profit sharing.

The plus of distance and the plus of public transport.

Job supplements, such as those for Nocturnity, Penosity, Toxicity, Danger, Dirty Jobs, Shipping and Navigation.

The amount corresponding to the guaranteed increase over the salary on time in the remuneration at premium or with incentive to the production.

Add-ons of residence in the island provinces and in the cities of Ceuta and Melilla.

Art. 4. º

The minimum wages laid down in Article 1, plus the accruals referred to in Article 3, are compensable, in annual accounts, with the income which, in normal working time, and by all the concepts, are collected by the workers under regulatory, collective agreements, arbitration awards, individual employment contracts and any legal provisions on wages in force to the date of enactment of this Royal Decree.

Art. 5. º

The Collective Agreements, sectoral rules, arbitration awards and legal provisions relating to the salary in force to the enactment of this Royal Decree, will subsist in their own terms without any modification other than that which is necessary to ensure the perception of the minimum wages of Article 1. the economic accruals of Article 3. on an annual basis.

Art. 6. º

One. Temporary workers whose services to the same undertaking do not exceed one hundred and twenty days shall, in conjunction with the minimum wage referred to in Article 1, receive the proportion of the remuneration on Sundays and public holidays, as well as the two extraordinary bonuses, which at least have every worker's right, corresponding to the salary of twenty-one days in each of them, thus applying the following results:

1. Workers since eighteen years: 1,998 pesetas per legal day in the activity.

2. Seventeen-year-old workers: 1,226 pesetas per legal day in the activity.

3. Sixteen-year-old workers: 772 pesetas per legal day in the activity.

With regard to the remuneration of the employees ' holidays referred to in this Article, those workers shall, in conjunction with the minimum inter-professional salary set out in Article 1, receive the proportional to the minimum legal holiday, in cases where there was no coincidence between the period of enjoyment of the holiday and the duration of the contract. In other cases, the remuneration for the holiday period shall be carried out in accordance with Article 38 of the Staff Regulations and other implementing rules.

Two. According to Article 6.5 of Royal Decree 1424/1985, of 1 August, which takes as a reference for the determination of the minimum wage of the employees of household working for hours, that determined for casual and seasonal workers, and taking into account the amount of the minimum overtime and the maximum working day of such staff, the minimum wages for an effective hour worked shall be as follows:

1. Workers since eighteen years: 317 pesetas per hour effectively worked.

2. Seventeen-year-old workers: 195 pesetas per hour effectively worked.

3. Sixteen-year-old workers: 123 pesetas per hour effectively worked.

FINAL PROVISIONS

First.

This Royal Decree shall take effect during the period from 1 January to 31 December 1988.

Second.

The Minister of Labour and Social Security is hereby authorized to make the necessary provisions for the implementation and development of the provisions of this Royal Decree.

Given at Baqueira Beret at 30 December 1987.

JOHN CARLOS R.

The Minister of Labour and Social Security,

MANUEL CHAVES GONZALEZ