To this end, it proposes an inter-professional agreement between employers and trade unions. In addition, it has demanded the transfer of powers in the field of passive employment policies.
Euskaraz irakurri: Araban, Bizkaian et Gipuzkoan gutxieneko soldata 1,400 euros Igotzea aldarrikatu du EH Bilduk
EH Bildu today introduced a motion claiming to set a minimum wage of 1400 euros in Álava, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa. In turn, he criticizes the Basque government’s “lack of leadership” in this matter, which is “a matter of political will”.
At a press conference in the Chamber of Vitoria-Gasteiz, the parliamentarian of EH Bildu Arkaitz Rodríguez presented the motion that the coalition will table next Thursday at the plenary session of the Basque Parliament, aiming to ensure that “the minimum wage guarantees the possibility to live with dignity in Álava, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa”.
As he explained, EH Bildu proposes “to set here an inter-professional minimum wage that adapts and responds to the socio-economic realities here” and “in line with the recommendations of the European Social Charter”, so it should be “a minimum wage that height reached 60% of the average salarywhich in this case is about 1400 euros”.
To this end EH Bildu proposes “two alternative but complementary ways”. As he explained, they want “the transfer of competence in passive employment policyand also proposes to “promote an inter-professional agreement in which employers and trade unions, through collective bargaining, can set a minimum wage with the characteristics of the wage proposed by EH Bildu.
The parliamentarian recalled that the Spanish government has recently decided to increase the interprofessional minimum wage in the state as a whole to 1,080 euros, which he described as “good news” but believes that “in the case of Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa, very short”. “Here the average salary is 20% higher than in the Spanish state, among other things, because the cost of living is also about twenty percent higher. That’s why here that minimum wage of 1080 euros that the Spanish government has set for the state as a whole barely 50% of the average salary,” he emphasized.
Arkaitz Rodríguez believes that “there is a way, the possibility” to “establish the minimum wage that we need here” and believes that “it is a matter of political will”. “We think the government has a lot to say and should take a proactive, leading role in asking the parties to agree on these features,” he stressed. “This government can do a lot to promote an inter-professional agreement with these characteristics; an inter-professional agreement that sets a minimum wage that reaches 60% of the average wage in this part of the country, as recommended by the European Social Charter,” reiterated he. .
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