Josep Sánchez Llibre: “The hourly reduction through a bill is a watchmaking pump for the Spanish economy” | News from Catalonia | EUROtoday

Josep Sánchez Llibre (Vilassar de Mar, Barcelona, ​​75 years previous) is president of Foment del Treball and vp of the CEOE since 2018. Before, he tanned as spokesman for Convergència I united within the Congress of Deputies. He claims the function that the employer has to play to affect the selections that the federal government takes and lifts his voice when any of the measures contradicts his pursuits. The final battle looms over the discount of the working day.

Ask. The authorities fails to approve budgets. What results trigger this example?

Answer. Financial Engineering lets you approve extraordinary credit however, way back, not having budgets was equal to having to name elections. The present scenario and the scenario in Parliament, the identical in that of the State as in that of Catalonia, complicates having the ability to approve them. It could be fascinating that there was an settlement between the nice events, as a result of it could give financial stability within the medium and long run, at a time when Europe faces the problem of reindustrialization and the necessity to put structural measures to face the Trumpism and the aggressive approaches of the Chinese economic system.

P. Without budgets it’s unfeasible to handle the fiscal reforms they’ve requested because the employer.

R. Unfortunately, taxation in Spain is a mines discipline that threatens the productiveness and competitiveness of corporations. The taxation that exceeds 50% of what one earns is confiscatory. That is why we declare that the property tax is provided or {that a} cease on the donation and inheritance tax is put. It is a misinform say that the patrimony is a tax that solely the wealthy pays it, as a result of it’s paid by the vast majority of Spanish society. A fiscal reform now appears that it isn’t potential, but when we aren’t capable of persuade the PSOE to use measures that go within the good route, who is aware of if a few of these measures couldn’t accumulate collectively or the PNV, with the assist of the PP.

P. Can the introduced improve in protection expenditure undermine funding in different sectors which are key to financial development?

R. The President of the Government has explicitly mentioned that the rise within the protection funds is not going to at any time scale back a discount in social spending.

P. Alert that Spanish corporations have a problem with productiveness. Can the discount of working hours be an incentive to extend it?

R. That is probably the most related strategy that businessmen have on the desk. The hourly discount by means of a invoice is a watchmaking pump for the Spanish economic system and for corporations normally. As the Government has raised, conditioned by including and Podemos, the reform of 37.5 hours has a destructive impact on the productive material. Foment del Treball has by no means been towards decreasing the working days, whether it is inside the negotiation between entrepreneurs and employees. But we’re in whole disagreement that’s applied by regulation. No nation in Europe goes in that route. Flexisegurity should be sought to implement schedules in every sector, relying on what employers agree with employees and unions. The 37.5 hours is a critical mistake that obeys an electoral whim in Yolanda Díaz, however to observe it’ll imply a discount in productiveness and an inflation of 8% of the prices in salaries that assist corporations.

P. What are they going to do?

R. Everything that’s inside our prospects. We are going to attempt to affect, and speak to PP, Junts, PNV and Vox to dam it. That put an modification to the totality that may prosper in Congress.

P. Don’t you concern being the dangerous within the film? The discount of working hours coincides with a minimal improve within the wage and, working much less however achieve extra, appears to be one thing that everybody likes.

R. Foment’s speech is humanistic. It is essential not solely to extend the minimal interprofessional wage, however to extend all wages. Labor revenue is extra necessary than capital revenue. The Spanish economic system goes comparatively properly, with good macroeconomic information, however particular person gross revenue is sort of under the European common. The solely technique to increase salaries is to extend productiveness. The Spanish employee, identical to entrepreneurs, isn’t excited by working much less to win the identical, however to work the identical and win extra.

P. He has declared that BBVA’s hostile OPA about Banco Sabadell doesn’t like. Do you additionally attempt to affect to fail?

R. The identical. The first enterprise group that manifested towards the OPA was Foment del Treball. From the enterprise perspective, the disappearance of an actor as necessary as Banco Sabadell is detrimental to the financing capability of small and medium enterprises. It wouldn’t be constructive for the Catalan and Spanish industrial material.

P. Is it towards as a result of it’s the lack of a key actor for enterprise financing or as a result of it’s a Catalan financial institution? How do you assume it’ll finish?

R. We need to be sensible. I do know what occurred in corporations with Lehman Brothers. When monetary actors disappeared, we misplaced financing capability. In this case, I’m satisfied that the OPA is not going to prosper. I belief what the CNMC can resolve and what the federal government could increase.

P. A defender of the free market appeals to authorities intervention to cease the operation?

R. You simply have to take a look at what occurs in Europe, the place there’s intervention of governments in choices that have an effect on corporations thought-about strategic. I defend the free market and free competitors, however I don’t want it to occur once more in Spain what we undergo from entrepreneurs after the disaster of Lehman Brothers.

P. After the La Caixa Group, we’ll see within the brief time period one other massive firm to return to Catalonia?

R. We will see related corporations that left, return to Catalonia. It’s the one factor I can say.

P. He president De la Generalitat states that Catalonia desires to steer the Spanish economic system and that in Spain you shouldn’t be afraid of Catalonia. Does it appear a profitable technique?

R. You need to applaud it. When Spain has been higher, it was when Catalan businessmen and Catalan politicians have been related in Spain. As occurred with Convergència and Unió, which was within the palms of the protection of the pursuits of the productive economic system and the enterprise pleasant.

P. What be aware does this eight months of Government de Illa?

R. A exceptional, as a result of it imposes stability and predictability. I hope that I don’t late to announce the enlargement of the airport, which is an important infrastructure. If we lose the time, the one enlargement of the Barcelona airport that we’re going to see would be the enlargement of the tracks of the Madrid-Barajas airport. There is a destructive problem, too, as a result of Illa has not been capable of endure the pressures of its companions, ERC and customary, with tax will increase within the vacationer fee or in housing issues with the heritage transmissions.

P. He has talked in regards to the process that Ciu did. Junts, supposed inheritor to convergence, the place is it going?

R. I’m comparatively glad with the evolution that Junts has made within the Congress of Deputies. He has been capable of affect the federal government’s fiscal coverage to depart the power to power with out impact, he has prevented {that a} tax on non-public insurance coverage insurance policies could be raised or {that a} fiscal coverage towards socimis is launched. Junts is within the route of what we wish entrepreneurs, identical to the PNV. We is not going to cease insisting in order that the PSOE additionally goes in that route. Pedro Sánchez should thank him for having the ability to increase political measures which have pacified the hostility between the Government of Catalonia and that of Spain, however, sadly, the pact with including makes it in financial coverage to go in the wrong way to what pursuits entrepreneurs.