Labor will meet with unions and employers this Monday to discuss unemployment benefits reform

Spain’s Ministry of Labor and Social Economy will meet with social agents on Monday at 4 p.m. to discuss the problems reforming unemployment benefitswhich has led to clashes in recent days between the department led by Yolanda Díaz and the Ministry of Economy led by Nadia Calviño.

The meeting, which will take place at the ministry’s headquarters on the same day that the November unemployment data are released, will be chaired by the Secretary of State for Labor, Joaquín Pérez Rey, and will be attended, among others, by the Minister of Labor. CC Public and Social Protection Policy. OO., Carlos Bravo; the Deputy Secretary General of Union Policy of UGT, Fernando Luján, and the Director of Employment, Diversity and Social Protection of CEOE, Rosa Santos.

The reform of the level of unemployment benefits is the last milestone of component 23 of the recovery plan that Spain still needs to fulfill and its completion is necessary for the receipt of the fourth payment of the European funds for an amount of 10 billion euros.

This reform, which Labor claims to have negotiated with Brusselshas led in recent days to a clash between the ministries of Díaz and Calviño over the intention of the economy of expensive haircut of the subsidy 30 to 12 months and reduce the amount to an average of 442 euros per month in the one year it would be received, up from the current €480 per month, Labor sources said.

Vice President Díaz has warned the Ministry of Economy about this not accept cuts and that this reform is its responsibility, to which the First Vice President, Nadia Calviño, has replied that “all structural reforms, such as the case of unemployment benefits, “are the responsibility of the government as a whole.”