The BOE publishes the extension of the SMI at the current 1,000 euros pending an agreement with the social agents that Montero hopes to reach before the end of March
New year, new pensions but the same interprofessional minimum wage (SMI). Although only for now. As this newspaper had foreseen, from January the lowest salary on the Spanish labor market will be frozen at the current 1,000 euros per month, divided into 14 payments. This was published in the Official Gazette on Wednesday, in the last Royal Decree of the year, which, despite the commitment, did not include the measures that were missing to complete the second phase of the pension reform.
The government has finally abandoned the adoption of these initiatives in this last part of the year, as it had proposed given the current stumbling block in the negotiations on the social dialogue table, and is postponing their implementation until 2023. In addition, if the ministry of Labor admits to this newspaper a week ago that their goal was to reach an agreement on the minimum wage increase in January, which would allow the first wage bill of the month to be paid with the increase, the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero , postponed this decision yesterday, explaining that “it will be tried” to reach an agreement “during the first quarter of next year”.
In this way, the SMI enters the frozen year for the third consecutive year. Although, once approved, it will be paid at least retroactively from January 1, the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, said at a press conference.
Source: La Verdad
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