• The SMI of 1,000 euros, the first crack in the new tandem Díaz-Escrivá

Government, unions and employers start the course this afternoon with the rise of the Minimum Professional Wage (SMI) as a touchstone for a legislature that has on the agenda labor reform and pensions. In the case of the SMI, the Government points to a rise that in 2020 leaves the figure below 1,000 euros in 14 payments , a proposal that involves lowering the electoral promise of Podemos in exchange for the agreement includes the multi-year commitment to increase by over those 1,000 euros.

Confirmation that the decision of the Government is to lower the proposal of Podemos has come this morning through Vice President Carmen Calvo, who stressed that the "desire" of the Government is to raise the minimum wage but has called for balance and co -responsibility so that it can Be assumed without risks.

Yolanda Díaz, Minister of Labor, has called trade unions and businessmen this afternoon to consult the new SMI subsidy, which is the prerogative of the Government and will probably be agreed in the Council of Ministers next Tuesday. There is a circumstance that Díaz has been one of the defenders of setting an "immediate" rise to 1,000 euros from the Executive.

But the closed opposition of the businessmen, the warnings of organizations such as the Bank of Spain and the restlessness generated by the consequences in the labor market of the 22% increase set by Pedro Sánchez for 2019 are very present in the economic area directed by Nadia Calviño .

Today, the president of the employer's association, Antonio Garamendi, has told information agencies that CEOE is so opposed to a rise to 1,000 euros that would be 11% more than the current 900 euros, as well as to a multiannual agreement.

"We are not going to talk about paths when I understand that it is an agreement of the two parties (PSOE and Podemos) and we are in day to day, daily work," he said in an interview with Efe, in which he points out that those 1,000 euros are among the government's proposals.

On the other side, the unions have also not shown explicit support to increase the SMI to 1,000 euros this year. After being ignored in this matter in 2019, they emphasize that there is no doubt about the need to increase the SMI already this year, always with the aim of reaching 60% of the average salary. For UGT and CCOO, 1,000 euros are acceptable to companies and, with the 2019 employment figures, they have not destroyed jobs.

In principle, today's meeting will open the way for a Council of Ministers with a strong work accent next week. To the rise of the SMI, the Government will add the repeal of Article 52 d of the Workers' statute, which establishes the right of companies to undertake legal dismissals for the accumulation of sick leave by their workers, even if those casualties are justified. It will remain to announce a calendar to modify the labor reform approved by the first Government of Mariano Rajoy in 2012.

In this sense, the differences between Podemos and the PSOE remain significant . Regarding the repeal of the labor reform and if this will be complete, Calvo has specified that it will have to be adjusted with the unions, although he has admitted that there are "urgent and serious matters that will go fast".

The spokesman for United We in Congress and Secretary of Action of Government of Podemos, Pablo Echenique, has defended on Wednesday that what was agreed with the PSOE in the program of the Executive of coalition is the repeal, "if not complete, practically complete", of the labor reform of the PP.

At the same time, the spokesperson of United Podemos in the Congress and secretary of Action of the Government of Podemos, Pablo Echenique, has assured on TVE that the reform of the labor framework that will be done will be "if not complete, practically complete, because it is what we have agreed with the PSOE, because almost all the elements in that reform are negative. "

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