The Ministry of Labor and the UGT and CC OO unions agreed this Thursday to lift the minimal wage to 1,221 euros gross in 14 funds, 3.1% greater than in 2025. It is a rise of 37 euros monthly, as introduced by the Secretary of State for Labor, Joaquín Pérez Rey. Thus, the Council of Ministers will quickly approve the rise within the wage ground, which can have retroactive results from January 1 of this 12 months.
The employers’ associations CEOE and Cepyme have rejected the rise, as anticipated within the assertion distributed this morning through which they categorised as “trilera” and “interventionist” the tax deduction with which the Treasury tried to draw them to the pact. Just consistent with this division, Labor and the facilities agree that this wage degree stays exempt from private revenue tax.
With this improve, the interprofessional minimal wage (SMI) continues its climb of current years. Since 2018, when Pedro Sánchez acceded to the Executive by way of the movement of censure in opposition to Mariano Rajoy, the SMI has grown by 66% together with this new improve. From 736 to 1,221 gross euros monthly in 14 funds. In the identical interval, costs have grown by 23%, which means a acquire in buying energy of the wage ground of about 40 factors.
This improve raises the SMI barely above 60% of the nation’s common web wage, the extent that the Executive aspires to succeed in the remuneration ground. According to the calculations of the group of consultants (teachers, the Government and the unions) who really helpful how a lot to lift it, to succeed in that 60% a rise of 1.8% would have been sufficient. However, as this improve was under inflation and one other Labor requirement was that it preserve buying energy, they opted for 3.1%, much like the interannual inflation of October, the most recent information that they had obtainable.
The settlement to lift the minimal wage additionally strengthens a dedication of the Government with the unions, which is overdue: to stop by decree that corporations can take in the rise within the minimal wage with the elimination of wage bonuses. The crops have already signed the earlier improve, making it conditional on it, however the Government insists that this time they are going to undertake this transformation and that they are going to achieve this by decree, with out the necessity for it to be endorsed by Parliament.
The employers’ affiliation, which flatly rejects this risk, believes that this modification would invade the legislative scope and that it calls for a invoice. Hence, they’ve introduced their intention to go to court docket if the Government fulfills this promise to the unions. In the unions themselves there are some doubts that this transformation is feasible with out going by way of Congress.
The employers’ affiliation additionally rejects this improve, as made clear in a press release despatched to the media this Thursday morning. In it, CEOE and Cepyme have denounced that they’ve discovered of the proposal with which the Government tried to persuade them by way of the press, and that they don’t just like the strategy itself.
The Ministry of Finance proposed an growing deduction in company tax for corporations that rent employees with salaries above the wage ground. This incentive might cowl as much as 100% of the wage price linked to the rise within the SMI, based on the proposal to which this newspaper had entry, and is geared toward actions with excessive expenditure on personnel. As this newspaper has discovered, Labor has not even raised this instrument on the negotiating desk.
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