The rise of the Professional Minimum Wage (SMI) before next January 1 will pass before a social dialogue table to be held in the coming days and in which businessmen and unions will meet. Of course, the employer has wanted to mark ground before the possibility that the legal basic salary rises to 1,000 euros next year after having risen 22%, up to 900 euros, this year.

This has been transmitted by the president of CEOE, Antonio Garamenid, to the president of the Government Pedro Sánchez, who has called him in the round of consultations held this week with an eye on an urgent investiture. " To place the minimum wage at 1,000 euros is a barbarity , which would lead more people to the submerged economy. Especially after the last rise of 2019," said Garamendi after the board of directors of the employers, held today.

"There is a basic problem that is the submerged economy of 24% in a country like Spain. If we dedicate ourselves to bringing more people to the submerged economy we bring more people to frustration. That the Government leaves us room for our functions and does not mark the spaces, "continued the CEOE CEO, who says that this has been transmitted to Sánchez this afternoon in a telephone conversation. "The president himself has recognized me that way."

For his part, the Secretary General of UGT, Pepe Álvarez, also after the conversation with Sánchez has indicated that the SMI should go up, although he did not specify how much or when that climb should take place. Álvarez insists on the repeal of the labor reform, and immediately the elimination of article 52.d) of the Workers' Statute , which allows the dismissal of persons with medical leave; the repeal of the 2013 pension reform; the strengthening of social protection, the fight against poverty and the distribution of wealth, as well as the increase of the SMI and the revaluation of pensions.

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