more vacations and a new extra pay
Christmas is approaching and Mercadona has decided to give an early gift to all its employees. The Management Committee of the well-known supermarket chain has agreed to extend the vacation period one more week for its more than 110,000 workers. In addition, it has also decided to distribute extra pay to all of them in the month of March.
As the company itself has announced, the holiday period will now go from 30 to 37 days a year for all your employees. This measure, which will come into force in 2026 in both Spain and Portugal, represents a great improvement in the annual working hours of workers and, as Mercadona points out, aims to ensure that everyone who is part of the company “be committed and 100% satisfied.”
With the launch of this initiative, which It will cost 100 million euros annually “The company’s own Human Resources model, based on listening and responding to the needs of its teams, continues to evolve.” “A relationship that allows proposals to be analyzed and, if they add value, such as this extension of vacations, to implement them to continue strengthening the quality of jobs and joint efficiency,” they indicated.
Regarding extra pay, the Management Committee has made this decision for the second consecutive year. It represents a total an extraordinary bonus of 280 million euroscorresponding to a monthly payment, which will be added to the variable remuneration, of one or two monthly payments depending on the seniority of each worker.
“With this decision, Mercadona recognizes the individual and collective effort of its extraordinary team, a fundamental pillar to achieve magnificent results year after year in productivity, efficiency and management, key to achieving the goals and objectives set. after having increased the salaries of 100% of the workforce by 8.5% in 2025“, they have pointed out.
With all this, the measures will involve an effort of about 380 million euros. Mercadona emphasizes that these actions demonstrate “once again its pioneering nature in worker satisfaction.”
