Labor hopes to convene employers and unions this week to handle the minimal wage | Economy | EUROtoday

The Ministry of Labor needs to convene employers and unions this week to handle the rise within the minimal interprofessional wage (SMI) for this yr, as soon as it has the report from the fee of specialists. After receiving this report, the place a rise vary is really useful – between 3% and 4% as EL PAÍS has realized -, Labor will name the CC OO, UGT unions and the CEOE and employers’ associations to the social dialogue desk. Cepyme to handle with them a measure that, finally, is the Government’s determination.

As said final week by the Secretary of State for Labor, Joaquín Pérez Rey, the intention is to summon the social brokers “immediately after Reyes”. Although Labor didn’t need to give figures, the second vice chairman of the Government and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, has reiterated that the double goal should be met that nobody loses buying energy, that’s, not less than mirror inflation, and that it serves to proceed advancing in the direction of 60% of the common wage in Spain.

At this level, Díaz has attacked the Minister of Economy, Carlos Body, who has indicated that the rise within the SMI should be “in line” with the evolution of the financial system. The unions have already advocated elevating the minimal wage, presently at 1,134 gross euros monthly unfold over 14 funds, round 6%, which might place them above 1,200 euros.

The interprofessional minimal wage has gathered, since its creation in 1963, 60 will increase – 5 years it was elevated twice, whereas in one other 5 it remained frozen -, till reaching the 1,134 euros at which it stood in 2024. The improve within the SMI for this yr was the results of the settlement reached with the unions, for the reason that employers backed out, and implied a rise of 54 euros monthly, in order that the annual minimal wage was at 15,876 gross euros. Since 2018 (when it was 735 euros), the SMI has gathered a revaluation of 54%.

Other pending duties

Determining the brand new improve within the base wage isn’t the one pending activity for the Government originally of the brand new yr. In the approaching days, the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Service should convene a negotiation desk to handle the wage improve for public staff. In it, the unions will demand a sequence of enhancements for a gaggle of greater than three million employees.

Thus, CSIF requests a wage improve of 6% to handle the lack of buying energy suffered by this personnel in recent times, and to start dialogue relating to the supply of public employment for subsequent yr. All this within the face of the specter of calling for brand new mobilizations if these calls for will not be met. UGT, for its half, calls for the progressive growth of full extraordinary funds, the rise of three-year durations, in addition to leaving to collective bargaining each the proportion of the wage mass to be allotted to social motion, in addition to the doable allocation of funds to employment pension plans.

In a special, however equally delicate section, is the implementation of the discount of the working day to 37.5 hours earlier than 2025 accepted by Labor and the unions, for which parliamentary approval remains to be up within the air. Both the Government and the bulk confederations are working to realize adequate help from the remainder of the events to present the agreed lower – it should go under 40 hours and not using a wage discount – the required help for its approval in Congress. While the employers’ associations CEOE and Cepyme didn’t signal the settlement, the important thing for it to go forward is for nationalist parliamentary forces comparable to PNV and Junts, initially against the discount, to resolve to help it.