The Minister of Labor and Social Economy has confirmed that “the proof is” that business representatives “have left the table since May 5”, and assured that the increases proposed by the unions are “reasonable”.
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The Second Vice-President of the Government of Spain and Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, has reiterated to business representatives that they will reconvene with the unions to discuss the recommendation for a salary increase for the coming years. in the area of collective bargaining, after the two sides failed to reach an agreement last May.
It is after the business confederation issued a statement denouncing the interference of the government of Spain in this two-party negotiation.
“I say again” to the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE) that they are “returning to the negotiating table and able to reach a salary agreement,” the minister said at a press conference on Friday after the Commission’s adviser meeting for the analysis of the interprofessional minimum wage held this Friday in Madrid.
Yolanda Díaz has assured that “what Spanish society emphasizes is that the end of the month is not reached and that they have a loss of purchasing power as experienced by 17 million wage earners in the country”. “It is proof that they have left the table since May 5 and I am telling them again to return to negotiations,” he repeated.
In view of this, CEOE has emphasized that they are willing to continue negotiating, and also defended that “they never got up from a table”.
Díaz has assured him that the hikes proposed by the unions seem “reasonable”, “defending the public interest”, and has urged employers to sit down to negotiate and reach an agreement “in the interest of the country”.
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The Ministry of Labor has given two and a half months to the advisory committee on the minimum interprofessional salary (SMI) to present a proposal to increase the SMI by 2023, after which it will convene the social dialogue table to negotiate the increase with employers and trade unions.
The SMI rose to 1,000 euros gross per month in 14 payments in 2022, with the government of Spain committing to put it at 60% of the national average salary by 2023, a figure the committee will have to propose, also taking into account with the current situation.
In its June 2021 report, the group of experts proposed three scenarios in which the highest increase would place the SMI at 1,049 euros gross in 2023.
“We are in difficult and exceptional times,” Díaz stressed in an economic context marked by high inflation, although he recalled that “a good number” of European countries have already implemented increases in their minimum wages, such as Germany, Belgium , Greece , Netherlands or Poland, while France has revalued it three times this year.
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