Treball registers the agreement for Regional Environmental Services for the 2025-2028 period

The Directorate of Territorial Services of the Department of Enterprise and Labor in Tarragona has arranged for the registration and publication of the collective labor agreement of the company Serveis Comarcals Mediambientals, SA for the years 2025-2028, with agreement code 43001992011999. The resolution, signed on October 9, 2026, by the acting director of Territorial Services, Maria del Mar Giné Serven, is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Tarragona on October 22, 2026 (CVE 2026-09558), on pages 1 to 75.

The text was submitted on August 13, 2026, by Teresa Maria Martínez Farré on behalf of the negotiating commission, and signed by the parties on May 5 and September 28, 2026. The Territorial Services had requested the commission to correct formal, legitimacy, and content deficiencies, which were resolved with an amendment act on September 28 and complementary documentation submitted on September 29. The registration is based on article 90.2 and 3 of Royal Legislative Decree 2/2015, of October 23, and article 2.1.a) of Royal Decree 713/2010, of May 28, regarding the registration and deposit of collective agreements.

Validity and scope of application

The agreement enters into force on the day of signing and has a validity of four years, from May 1, 2025, to December 31, 2028. If neither party terminates it, it is understood to be extended for successive periods of one year; the termination must be formalized in writing with a minimum notice of three months and a maximum of six.

• Affected workplaces: street collection and cleaning, Botarell composting plant, and mechanical-biological waste treatment plant (MBT).
• Personnel included: indefinite labor, permanent indefinite and temporary, as well as those hired for internships, training, and under agreements with funding entities.
• Classification into six professional levels, from area head to assistant, with functions detailed in Annex V, approved by the Board of Directors on February 17, 2026.

Working day, vacations, and leave

The normal working day is set at 1,568 annual hours, equivalent to 35 weekly hours, with a 30-minute break computable as effective time when the continuous workday reaches six hours. The annual distribution must be agreed upon between the company and the Works Council according to shifts and schedules.

• Vacations: 22 working days per year (154 hours), not replaceable by financial compensation.
• Days of free disposal: six paid working days, extendable to seven from age 55, eight from 59 to 63, and nine until retirement.
• Leaves: 17 calendar days for marriage or registration as a domestic partnership, five working days for accident or serious illness of relatives up to the second degree, and five days for the death of a first-degree relative.
• Right to digital disconnection outside of working hours, leaves, sick leave, and vacations, except in emergencies or positions with agreed availability.

Salaries and supplements

The 2025 salary tables set the total annual gross per professional level:

• Area Head: 53,294.19 euros.
• Service Head: 48,741.10 euros.
• Technicians: 39,984.96 euros.
• Supervisors: 38,024.48 euros.
• Shift Leader: 31,335.96 euros.
• First-class official, driver, loader operator, and plant official: 30,073.06 euros.
• Collection, cleaning, treatment, and waste center laborers: 26,708.59 euros.
• Administrative assistant: 23,442.34 euros.

The agreement establishes four extraordinary payments (March, June, September, and December) and a position supplement that absorbs the former punctuality and attendance, productivity, transport, and consolidatable productivity bonuses from 2018. Night shift, holiday, special holiday, driving, maintenance on-call, and preventive resource bonuses are added, as well as a mileage allowance of 0.33 euros. The tables already incorporate the 2024 review (0.5%) and the 2025 increase (2.5%), and the remunerative agreement cannot exceed the maximum increases of the General State Budget Law.

Commissions and social improvements

• Joint monitoring commission, with two representatives from the company and two from the staff, which must resolve issues within fifteen business days and refer discrepancies to the Labor Court of Catalonia.
• Health and safety commission of six members, which must meet at least once per quarter and, on an extraordinary basis, within 48 hours following a serious accident.
• Absenteeism reduction bonus of 250 gross euros per year, conditioned on not exceeding 6.26% collective and individual absenteeism.
• School aid of 70 euros per child between 0 and 18 years of age who is enrolled in school, and life and accident insurance with an insured capital of 20,000 euros.
• Full adherence to the harassment protocol and the LGTBI measures addendum of the sectoral agreement, published in the BOE with the reference BOE-A-2025-16675.

The registration and publication in the official bulletin give general effectiveness to the text and close a negotiation process that had dragged on since May. For the staff of the regional public waste company, the agreement consolidates the 35-hour workday, the supplement structure, and social conditions for four years, and sets the rules for internal promotion and the job bank that will govern hiring until 2028.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Tarragona, October 22, 2026, section I, pp. 1-75 (official reference: CVE 2026-09558).