While in 2026 the labor improvements will be applied to the public sector workers and the increases, bonuses or measures agreed upon in the 2025-2026 collective agreement, according to its regime, collective bargaining for 2027 is still in process.
This asks for a increase of S/700 monthly salary for all public workers without exception, the delivery of a extraordinary bonus of up to S/2,500 by January 2027 for all employees, and more measures. But these requests, which were already presented to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, are now in the court of the Executive.
According to sources from labor unions, they pointed out Infobae Peru there is some delay in the Executive to follow up on the issue, in light of the political crisis of the José Jerí government, and the recent entry of José María Balcázar to the presidency. However, they hope that this March the negotiating commission for the ‘tug of war’ between unions and the Executive can be installed.
To date, the commission has not yet been formed. centralized collective bargaining for the discussion and agreements of the measures proposed by the unions in increases, bonuses and more, towards 2027.
How should collective bargaining proceed? First, the centralized one considers these deadlines.
- The draft collective agreement is presented to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers between November 1 and January 30 of the following year
- Direct treatment must begin within 10 calendar days of presenting the draft collective agreement and can be extended up to 30 days after direct treatment begins. Currently, the process is at this stage
- If an agreement is not reached in direct treatment, the parties can use legal mechanisms, which may last up to 30 days from the termination of direct treatment. d. The agreements reached with economic impact are sent by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, within five days of their signing for inclusion in the public budget law, through the corresponding channels.
- The parties establish a monitoring commission to supervise compliance with the agreements reached.
Meanwhile, for the decentralized collective bargaining It is developed according to the following procedure:
- The draft collective agreement is presented to the public entity between November 1 and January 30 of the following year
- Direct treatment must begin within 10 calendar days of presenting the draft collective agreement and can be extended up to 30 days after direct treatment begins.
- If an agreement is not reached in direct treatment, the parties may use conciliation mechanisms, which may last up to 30 days from the termination of direct treatment. The conciliation request is submitted directly to the Administrative Labor Authority
- If an agreement is not reached in the conciliation stage, any of the parties may request the start of an optional arbitration process, which must conclude on June 30 unless the workers decide to go on strike.
- In the case of the previous paragraph, workers can alternatively declare a strike, in accordance with the provisions of the Single Ordered Text of the Collective Labor Relations Law, approved by Supreme Decree 010-2003-TR, and its regulations.
