Santander (EFE) it has fallen short” with his proposal to guarantee by law the rise of the SMI to 60% of the average salary.
“Mr. Sánchez has fallen short because the European Social Charter speaks of ‘at least 60% of the average wage’, and Spain is 25 points away from the European average wages,” Díaz stated this Thursday during his speech at the summer course of the Menéndez Pelayo International University organized by the APIE.
The head of Labor has explained that Sumar’s proposal is to continue raising the SMI with the current formulation of the Workers’ Statute, but without citing the increase at that 60% of the average salary.
“I have raised the SMI to reach 60% of the average salary, as recommended by the European Social Charter”, claimed the leader of Sumar, who recalled that the different increases have been carried out with social dialogue.
“If we govern again, the SMI will be raised again in a deliberate strategy of raising wages,” Díaz has settled.
Garamendi (CEOE) regrets that ministers did not resign due to attacks on businessmen
The president of the CEOE employers’ association, Antonio Garamendi, pointed out this Thursday that the attack on the business world by some members of the Government who were not asked to resign has been “regrettable”.
“There is no pass that businessmen have been insulted with first and last names,” Garamendi criticized in responses to the media after his speech at the summer course at the Menéndez Pelayo International University organized by APIE.
Without citing the names of the ministers, the leader of the employers’ association has regretted that “someone to resign and leave the Government” was not asked and has said that, in this sense, he gives a “suspense” to the Executive.
Garamendi, who has defended in his speech the agreements sealed in the framework of the social dialogue, including the labor reform, has criticized the announcement made yesterday by the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, that the PSOE will include in its program for the next elections sets by law that the minimum wage (SMI) is 60% of the average wage.
“They have not called us to talk about the minimum wage (…) the approaches that do not include social dialogue are a mistake,” Garamendi criticized.
The leader of the employers’ association also wanted to point out in his speech some of the issues that the next Government will have to face, “come whoever comes”.
One of them is the lack of workers in sectors such as hospitality or construction while there are 3 million unemployed, a problem in which Garamendi has mentioned the possibility of making employment compatible with the collection of some benefits.
Álvarez (UGT) asks the Government to fulfill its commitment and approve the statute of the scholarship holder
The general secretary of the UGT, Pepe Álvarez, has asked the Government this Thursday to fulfill its commitments and approve the norm of the so-called scholarship holder’s statute on which the unions sealed an agreement with the Ministry of Labor last week.
After his speech at the summer course at the Menéndez Pelayo International University organized by APIE, Álvarez stressed that there is an agreement -from which the CEOE employers finally withdrew- and that the Government “has to proceed to approve” the norm for tackling precariousness in practices.
Along with this issue, the general secretary of the UGT wanted to influence Santander in his demand that the parties that are running in the general elections on July 23 so that they explain what they are going to do with the agreements and reforms sealed by this legislature, especially those , such as labor, in which the CEOE has also been.
“If now for ideological reasons they are questioned (…) the social agreement has a relative value”, Álvarez has directly appealed to the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, whom he has asked not to go with the predisposition to touch up rules just because of who they were signed.
Sordo (CCOO) is confident that Feijóo will not repeal the labor reform because Bildu opposed it
The general secretary of the CCOO, Unai Sordo, has trusted that the PP candidate, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in the event of winning the elections on July 23, will not repeal the labor reform because Bildu voted against it.
“The PP voted the same as Bildu and ERC and I deduce (from Feijóo’s words) that the labor reform will remain intact,” Sordo said this Thursday during his speech at the summer course at the Menéndez Pelayo International University organized by APIE .
The CCOO leader thus responds to the popular candidate, who assured this Monday that, if he wins, he will review “one by one each of the laws and measures in which Bildu’s vote was decisive”, among which is not counted labor reform.
Sordo has once again insisted on the importance of the parties that compete in the elections clarifying their position regarding the pension reform, the increases in the interprofessional minimum wage (SMI) or the labor reform itself.
However, he has indicated that “a process of repealing the agreed reforms will not be easy” since these have been agreed with the European Union, offer “good results” and because eliminating something that works requires “many explanations”.
In addition, he has indicated that “there is a party in the elections” and that “it is not written who is going to win.”