After unemployment benefits reform collapsed yesterday, Yolanda Díaz announces that she will convene the Social Dialogue Table to debate the rule. On the SMI, Labor is betting on a 4% increase, while the power stations will ask for 5%. The CEOE has already announced that “it will not be in the agreement.”
The Second Vice President of the Spanish Government and Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Diazhas announced that it will “immediately” convene social agents to negotiate the agreement reform of unemployment benefits, which Congress overturned yesterday, and closes the increase in the minimum interprofessional wage (SMI).
“This Friday we are going to close the Social Dialogue Table around the SMI and as soon as the increase occurs, we will immediately convene the social agents to work in advance on a reform that is very positive for our country,” he said. Díaz in Namur (Belgium), where he will participate in an informal meeting of EU Ministers of Employment and Social Policy.
As the parties make progress, Díaz’s ministry is betting on an increase in the 4%while the trade union centers have announced that they will ask for an increase of 5%. The employers’ organization CEOE already withdrew from the agreement during the previous meeting with the ministry. The president of ATA and vice president of the CEOELorenzo Amor stated yesterday that the CEOE “will not be in the agreement” and denounced “the blackmail” that, in his opinion, the executive is carrying out.
“We will be present at the next meeting that is convened, but they already have the answer. And I say they have it, because in these circumstances we are not going to engage in blackmail. Social dialogue includes many things, but in ” In the spirit of social dialogue, there is no place for threats or blackmail,” he stressed.
The subsidy reform, for discussion at the Social Dialogue Table
The minister recalled that the reform of unemployment benefits, which was rejected yesterday with votes against PP, Vox and Podemos, is “the only one” that the Spanish government could not submit to social dialogue because it had to be approved before December 31, because it was one of the measures linked to the request for the fourth payment from the European Anti-Crisis Fund, which will allow the Spanish state to receive another 10 billion euros.
But even if this were to decrease, the subsidy reform should come into effect on June 1, 2024. Non-validation therefore does not have immediate consequences for the beneficiaries of the unemployment protection system at the welfare level.
When asked about the fact that Congress yesterday overturned the reform with the votes of CanThe Minister of Labor has accused the purple party of ‘bringing workers hand in hand with PP and Vox’.
Source: EITB
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