The minimum vital income introduced by Vice President Pablo Iglesias last week in the agenda of measures to extend aid coverage due to economic paralysis is among the decisions that the Council of Ministers could approve tomorrow.

The minimum vital income, a provisional solution until in a few months the Ministry of Social Security concludes the definitive design for a permanent minimum vital income, could be accompanied by other measures such as establishing that workers who are dependent and dependent cannot telework have a paid permission from companies.

The minimum vital income was introduced last week by Iglesias through the urgent and expeditious route. The minimum vital income is an electoral promise of Podemos and the coronavirus crisis makes it, in the party's opinion, a matter of greater relevance. Iglesias consulted with unions and organizations in the Third Sector, called different Ibex businessmen and also exchanged opinions with CEOE. Publicly, he assured "verify" the support of large businessmen to suit him.

The initiative has cost the government the slam of the CEOE accusing Iglesias of manipulating them, in addition to seeing their role as interlocutors at the social dialogue table bridged. Last Friday, the presidents of CEOE and Cepyme, Antonio Garamendi and Gerado Cuerva, planted the Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, in a meeting to advance agreements so that the economic reconstruction after the state of alarm does not suppose a massive destruction of business fabric and employment. More than 450,000 companies have requested temporary employment regulation (ERTE) files that affect more than three million workers.

The minimum vital income proposed would consist of an amount similar to the Multiple Effects Public Income Indicator (IPREM), which is the reference index for the allocation of aid and subsidies based on income. The beneficiaries would be people who do not have access to any of the aid that the Government has deployed since last March 14 and which already cover 30% of the working population, that is, more than six million people. For example, workers who have been on the black market and who do not appear in records that justify their contribution to the system at any time. Sources familiar with the process did not say how many people would be covered.

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