President Pedro Sánchez makes this announcement in the Senate after Yolanda Díaz took the reins after the failed first meeting with the unions
The government will increase the Minimum Interprofessional Wage (SMI) in 2023 by 8% to 1,080 euros per month divided over 14 benefits. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced this in the Senate on Tuesday, just as the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, was meeting urgently with the unions to reach an agreement. The CEOE pulls out of a tripartite agreement for the third year in a row, refusing even to go to the negotiating table. whom he accuses of being a “traitor” for not adhering to the agreement reached with the labor reform.
According to estimates by CC OO, the increase of 82 euros per month will benefit about 2.3 million employees and will have retroactive effect from 1 January. In this way, companies will have to update payrolls in February and also pay the increase corresponding to January. Due to this new increase, companies and the self-employed will have to absorb an additional cost of more than 3,000 million euros.
The government ultimately opted for the high range of increases recommended by the committee of experts, which sent the ministry a report last December in which it estimated that the minimum wage should be between €1,046 and €1,082 per month in order to reach 60% of the minimum wage. the average salary, which is the legislative obligation acquired by the executive under the leadership of Pedro Sánchez to comply with the requirements of the European Social Charter.
The second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, took charge of negotiating the new interprofessional minimum wage (SMI) for 2023 on Tuesday after the failure of the first meeting convened for this purpose, in which the CEOE was absent, which in his thirteen years refusal to negotiate with the Department of Labor, which he accuses of being a “traitor” for not adhering to the agreement reached in the labor reform.
The first meeting held this Tuesday by the Ministry of Labor, led by the Secretary of State for Employment, Joaquín Pérez Rey, failed in an attempt to reach an agreement with the unions, who had already warned that “there is no more rope is” and the negotiations were due to be concluded this Tuesday. For this reason, Díaz took over the social dialogue baton and immediately convened the leaders of the two majority unions, Pepe Álvarez, on behalf of the UGT; and Unai Sordo, from CC OO, with the aim of concluding a new bilateral agreement, given the possibility of reaching one in which the employers are also present.
Both the ministry and workers’ organizations accused the CEOE of “irresponsibility” for not negotiating. “I am deeply saddened that Spanish employers are not sitting at the table, a measure that will affect millions of people cannot have an absent employer who will not listen to what the government has to say. It is irresponsible,” denounced the secretary of state before the first meeting, who stressed that “it is not acceptable” for the CEOE to “ignore” “one of the most important decisions that the government will take in the field of labor during the year 2023”.
However, the businessmen accuse the government of not presenting an approach all month and not responding to their proposal, which they sent out on December 21, in which they opened for a 4% increase to 1,040 euros per year. month in exchange for public procurement being indexed to this increase so that companies can pass it on, and prices in the agricultural sector are reduced by 20%.
“If I send someone to the table, because technical people are going, they can’t say yes or no because we don’t have a proposal. The minimum is to send a proposal,” CEOE President Antonio Garamendi denounced.
Garamendi reproached Díaz for “just looking for a picture” and recalled that the emergence of the SMI is a government competence, after consultation with the social agents, and that this had already happened at a dialogue table on December 21, a meeting in the one that the bosses also planted on Work.
Source: La Verdad
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