Discomfort in the large employer CEOE with the increase in the maximum contribution bases included by the Government in the General State Budgets. From the business organization led by Antonio Garamendi, they described as “inadmissible” the increase of around 8.5% – the expected inflation – which incorporates the preliminary project of public accounts and which will cause an increase in the obligations of payment towards Social Security to the companies. And they anticipate that the decision will not facilitate the current ongoing negotiations for the third block of pension reforms or a consensus around the income pact that the executive once proposed to contain inflation.
“In a context in which the Government insists on the social agents to agree on an income pact, it is not understood that the executive itself takes unilateral decisions in aspects that affect it substantially”, criticized the CEOE in a statement.
The employers accused the Government of a decision they consider to have taken “unilaterally and behind the backs of social dialogue” and which will increase labor costs. The companies will already have to assume a very small increase of 0.6 points in the quotas for next year, as part of the new Intergenerational Equity Mechanism (MEI), which next year will be added to the increase of around 8.5% by increasing the maximum bases.