2023-11-23 18:00:42
The president of the CEOE, Antonio Garamendi, assured this Wednesday in Zaragoza that the Government of Spain “does not comply” with the update of the interprofessional minimum wage (SMI) in public bidding for servicesby not indexing increases in the value of contracts, nor with the latest labor reform, since the State continues to have a temporary level of 30% while the private sector has reduced it from 24% to 15% since the entry into force of the regulations. “It makes no small sense for him to show us a path when he doesn’t comply later,” he reproached
This was stated in statements to the media when asked about the increase in the SMI next year, an issue on which the employers’ association and the Ministry of Labor differ once again. Garamendi has visited the Aragonese capital to participate in the Sustainable Mobility Forum organized in the Mobility City and in separate meetings of the executive committees of the CEOE from Zaragoza and Aragon.
Regarding the employer’s proposal for the minimum wage, presented last Wednesday, he has defended that what the CEOE proposes is “that people fulfill their agreements”, in reference to the last Agreement for Employment and Collective Bargaining 2023-2025 signed by the Government of Spain, business organizations and unions on May 10, which includes a salary increase of 6% in the next two years.
In this sense, he recalled that the SMI has risen 48% in recent years, although he stated that ““We’re not saying no.” to the negotiation announced by the new Government, but “previous commitments must be met”, which involves an increase of 3% in 2024 plus another 3% in 2025.
On this point, he has urged the Government to update salary increases in public contract budgets because, in his opinion, “it cannot be” that this increase in labor costs is applied at the expense of reducing the profitability margins of the concessionaire companies “and many are in losses.”
The president of CEOE has warned that business organizations will follow the path already agreed upon and that “The SMI is a responsibility of the Government, after consultation to the social agents, and will do what they have to do.
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He has also claimed that the situation of the agricultural sector be “very much in mind”, “who has problems and is drowning.” “It is not enough to raise and raise salaries,” she added. He has also expressed the opinion that there should be different average salaries in each autonomous community, because some “are already above” the level set by the European Social Charter, which recommends that the minimum remuneration be higher than 60% of the average salary. .
“We also do not agree that nLet’s take you out of your sleeve, as is usually the case in this case, a group of experts, of wise men, that really the experts are the companies, especially the small businesses, the farmers, the merchants, the hoteliers,” he criticized.
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