Yolanda Díaz proposes to raise the Minimum Wage twice a year: once now and review it in 6 months with inflation
The Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (
CEOE
)
does not plan to attend this Wednesday
the meeting with the Ministry of Labor and the unions to discuss the
increase in the Minimum Interprofessional Wage (SMI)
for 2023, since they are still waiting for the Government rectify and reverse the
amendment agreed with Bildu
to reinforce the role of the Inspectorate in collective dismissals.
"Everything is as up to now because what has been requested is
that the amendment be reversed
," sources from the employer's association confirm to EL MUNDO, who have no intention of attending the meeting at the Ministry's headquarters at
9:30 p.m. tomorrow of this Wednesday,
unless before that moment the Ministry changes its position.
Sources close to Díaz
rule out that the amendment agreed with Bildu will be rectified,
since it is a power of the legislative power and since, in addition, they do not see the problem that it can pose for any company that the Inspection confirms that the circumstances exist that the company alleges to justify the dismissals.
Although the Government does not have the obligation to negotiate with the social agents to increase the SMI,
it must consult them
to comply with the Workers' Statute and it is the will of the Ministry of
Yolanda Díaz
to approve the increase with agreement now that the Commission of Experts has already published his report: the recommendation is that the minimum wage rise to a minimum of 1,046 euros in 2023 and a maximum of 1,082 euros to be equivalent to 60% of the average wage in Spain.
However, the
employers
are not only against raising the SMI but they have also
considered the dialogue with Labor broken after an
amendment to the employment law
was agreed with Bildu
which, in their opinion, means changing what was agreed in labor reform.
This rectification reinforces the role of the Inspection in the Employment Regulation Files (ERE), so that its report will have a determining role when the judge has to rule on a collective dismissal.
This change does not mean returning to the labor authority the ability to approve or deny the dismissal, as was the case before the 2012 labor reform, but it does
give a more decisive role to the Inspection
, which in practice depends on the Ministry.
"Waiting for a rectification,
Spanish businessmen reject dialogue with the Ministry of Labor
as we understand it to be
cheating
and contrary to good faith," CEOE said last week, a position in which it remains this Monday, as confirmed by this Newspaper.
Despite the fact that Díaz publicly
asked the CEOE "to comply with its constitutional mandate,
do its job and sit down to negotiate", in truth the employers
would facilitate their work if they decide not to attend
this Wednesday's meeting.
On the one hand, because Labor will only have to negotiate with the unions, which are asking to raise the SMI to 1,100 euros, and, on the other, because they will be able to make the CEOE ugly because they have not even gone to present their arguments at the negotiating table, failing to comply with what they consider their constitutional duties.
"I found out from the press. If we are talking about consultation,
the logical thing is that they would have consulted us
," criticized the president of the CEOE,
Antonio Garamendi
, when asked about the recommendations of the Committee of experts this Monday afternoon.
However, if no member of your organization is part of the Committee, it is because those who were part of it decided to leave it shortly after conforming, since they did not want to participate in a calculation that seemed biased at the beginning and aimed at obtaining a recommendation for an increase. , without giving rise to doubts about the advisability of continuing to raise this indicator.
Díaz pointed out that if he did not attend the meeting, the president of the businessmen should explain it, to which Garamendi replied: "Let the minister give explanations of what she has to do. I give mine."
This
Wednesday
the employers have
their Board of Directors scheduled
, in which Garamendi will appoint his management team for the next four years, an appointment that will coincide with the meeting of the Ministry.
Calviño surrenders to Díaz
The
Advisory Commission for the Analysis of the SMI
is made up of
twelve members
, one of whom is
Víctor Ausín,
director of Macroeconomic Analysis of the
Ministry of Economy
and representative in the group of the interests of the first vice president, Nadia Calviño, with whom Díaz He has had disputes on other occasions on behalf of the SMI.
Although the Commission has concluded that the minimum wage should rise in 2023
between 4.6% and 8.2%
so that it is equivalent to at least 60% of the average wage, the truth is that the representative of the Economy did not agree with the calculation of the
minimum rise,
which has defended that it should be
between 2.92% and 3.05%.
This means that instead of supporting a rise to a level located at least
1,046 euros
-which has finally been included in the report-, the Economy expert recommended a rise to
a minimum of between 1,029.2 - 1,030.5 euros
.
"The estimated salary evolution paths suggest the
need to increase the SMI by 30 euros in 2023
to meet the objective of 60% of the average salary. The objective is that, in 2023, the minimum interprofessional salary, net of taxes and social contributions, reaches 60% of the average net salary.According to the estimated evolution of the average salary since 2020, the latest reference available from the Salary Structure Survey,
an increase in the gross SMI
would be necessary -currently at 1,000 euros in 14 payments-
of between 2 92% and 3.05%
to meet said objective", states the Ministry of Economy in the
annex
to the report.
The Ministry has not responded
to this medium when asking
why they have ended up accepting a minimum increase of 46 euros
if they were in favor of the recommended minimum increase being 30 euros.
The difference between their result and the one that has finally been imposed is based on the fact that in the Economy they are in favor of
more accurately incorporating the "salary" received by the workers
who were affected by a Temporary Employment Regulation File
(ERTE)
to the wage bill, estimating what those who were totally suspended, those who were partially suspended and those who, having been in ERTE, later became active, received.
However, its calculation has been rejected, since the Committee believes that in light of how the average wage has evolved,
the minimum wage should already have been at 1,035 euros in 2020
, which prevents them from accepting a rise in 2023 of less than that level.
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