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The Government agrees with the UGT and CCOO to raise the minimum wage to 1080 euros

Date: March 29, 2024 Time: 01:36:53

The Government has agreed with the unions that the minimum wage rises to 1,080 euros during 2023, as Pedro Sánchez has assured his intervention in the Senate. This figure has been the product of a long negotiation in which the general secretaries of the UGT and CCOO, Pepe Álvarez and Unai Sordo, and the Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, have finally had to intervene after the meeting scheduled for 11:00 in the morning ended without agreement. The unions had met this Tuesday with the Secretary of State for Employment, Joaquín Pérez Rey, but the meeting has been unsuccessful despite the absence of the CEOE.

The union representatives had stated before entering the first meeting that this appointment did not seem “excessively necessary”, since the Executive was perfectly aware of the demand of the workers’ associations that advocated reaching 1,100 gross euros. Álvarez had pointed out this morning in an interview on RNE that he would end the negotiation after the meeting scheduled for midmorning. Along the same lines, from CCOO they had pointed out that the issue “did not give much more of itself”, while appealing to the urgency of closing an amount.

After the sit-in of the CEOE

The employers communicated late this Monday that they were not going to attend the meeting because the Government had not sent a specific proposal that they could study, nor had they evaluated the plan proposed by the CEOE that conditioned a 4% increase to two requirements that they have not convinced anyone on the bench of the Executive. Garamendi has expressed that he was not going to send a technician to the appointment with the Secretary of State who would not later have the capacity to assess whether or not the employers agreed with these terms. However, the early afternoon meeting from which they have been left out seems to have had a markedly political nature.

In December, the group of experts from the Ministry of Labor managed to get the increase to be within a range between 1,046 and 1,082 euros, somewhat below the demand of the unions, while the CEOE proposal does fall within this margin, but the requirements that go through to improve the conditions of the agricultural sector, do not enter the papers that are on the work table.

Last week, Minister Nadia Calviño joined the exchange of statements and pointed out that it was necessary to improve the salary conditions of workers, but not only those who are in the lowest rank and therefore many benefit from the rise in the SMI. The minister emphasized that the increase must be responsible so as not to stifle businessmen, given an economic situation that continues to represent a challenge given the advance of inflation.

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Puck Henry
Puck Henry
Puck Henry is an editor for ePrimefeed covering all types of news.
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