The Spanish government and social agents have agreed to hold future meetings, albeit without a specific date for now. Minister Escrivá has ruled out extending the period taken into account to determine the amount of the pension from 25 to 35 years.
The Spanish government and social agents have been summoned this Monday to hold future meetings, albeit without a specific date for now, to further negotiate the final fringes of the pension reform: the gradual increase in the base and maximum pension and how to introduce more equity? when calculating the pension of employees who see it fall because their last years of contributions are not the best, a situation that, according to calculations by the Ministry of Inclusion, affects one in three Social Security members.
The Secretary of State for Social Security and Pensions, Borja Suárez, met this morning with representatives of trade unions and employers to resume the dialogue on pensions and complete the reform that started last year with the last two outstanding issues.
As a representative of the social agents, Rosa Santos, Director of Labor Relations of CEOE; Teresa Díaz de Terán, Director of the Social and Labor Department of Cepyme; Carlos Bravo, Secretary of Public Policy and Social Protection of CCOOand Cristina Estévez and Mariano Hoya, Secretary of Institutional Policy and Deputy Secretary-General of Trade Union Policy ULSrespectively.
Sources of the negotiations have indicated that there has been no written proposal from the ministry and not too many novelties at Monday’s meeting.
A “first contact”
the minister himself Jose Luis Escrivacmade it clear in statements to TVE and RNE that Monday’s meeting was just a “first contact” and that they would continue to negotiate for the coming weeks.
However, Escrivá has today outlined some lines along which these negotiations will proceed: the “soft and gradual” increase in the maximum pension and at the same time in the maximum contribution base to contribute to the sustainability of the system, and the method used to calculate.
The minister emphasized that the maximum pension in Spain is “relatively low” compared to that of other countries and has indicated that if it is increased “gently and gradually” while increasing the maximum base, the income of the system will increase in the decades of the 1930s and 1940s, and that is where the system will suffer “a little more strain” due to demographics.
On the other hand, the minister, who has ruled out expansion, has 25 to 35 years old the period taken into account to determine the amount of the pension, he explained that it will be analyzed with the social agents whether it is possible to act on the period for calculating the pension and at the same time “the worst years of premiums” and better treatment of premium gaps (periods when there is no premium because there is no work).
Escrivá has reiterated that “it is not strictly speaking” to extend the period for calculating the pension, which is currently set at 25 years, but to combine several elements so that there is no lack of protection in situations that arise at the employee.
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Source: EITB
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