The Government builds bridges with businessmen after slamming the social dialogue for the "manipulation" of Churches

Today the Government begins the process of economic reconstruction with its relations with businessmen seriously affected by the last intervention of Vice President Pablo Iglesias and the obligation to try and agree on how it will continue to protect three million employees who have their jobs suspended by a Temporary Employment Regulation File (ERTE) and almost half a million companies that have raised them.

The irruption of Pablo Iglesias last Thursday in the dialogue held by employers, unions and the Government to adapt the labor market to the coronavirus crisis ended last Friday with a slam of CEOE and Cepyme to the Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, who yesterday It was about solving with a new call for this week.

The Government cannot afford delays in social agreements for the greatest economic crisis that Spain has experienced in its recent history. The concern is focused on the day when the alarm state that has companies and workers in assisted breathing while the confinement lasts decreases. Around 30% of the active population (more than six million people out of a total of 19 million) have been subject to aid, subsidies or benefits since March 14 , according to the Ministry of Social Security.

Employers and unions know that when the state of alarm is lifted next May, the protective measures will also decline, but the companies' commitments not to dismiss within six months in the ERTE due to force majeure will remain active . The economic outlook will then be completely different from that of March and companies will not be able to sustain the previous level of employment. What companies and unions are negotiating is already an agreement for those ERTEs due to force majeure to become , under some conditions, ERTE for economic and productive reasons until the economy as a whole has fully absorbed the consequences of almost two months of hibernation due to confinement.

In this context, the emergence of Churches for the social agents to guarantee a minimum vital income of just over 500 euros for the people most affected by the crisis is on the agenda to be approved tomorrow in the council of ministers. What was not yet on the government's agenda yesterday is its meeting for the reconversion of the ERTE, which would be discussed at a specific table different from the one that Vice President Nadia Calviño usually calls at the beginning of the week. social discard a break but do not hesitate to point out that the warning is given.

Although sectors such as industry or construction begin to become active as of today, other economic and labor pillars such as tourism have already fitted the loss of Easter with an estimate of 18,000 million euros in income and practically give up on the summer after that the European Commission itself has warned that the horizon of a return to normality is not yet clear for the months of July and August.

Under these conditions, without a clear prospect of economic takeoff with the disappearance of the state of alarm, unions and employers have held talks in recent days in order to present the Government with a new labor agreement on which to base the stages of economic reconstruction. And in these conditions it is when the confidence of the businessmen has been broken in the third vertex of the social dialogue.

It is not the first time that the vice president and leader of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, has broken into negotiations and forced to build bridges to rebuild them. It happened last February in the midst of mobilizations in the countryside due to the escalation of costs suffered by their companies and which had the drop in the Interprofessional Minimum Wage.

This time it has happened again, albeit on the largest scale of negotiations and at a critical moment such as has not occurred in recent history. "What it denotes is a total ignorance of how relationships work in social dialogue , where there are codes that, if not respected, have consequences," explains a source present in these conversations. "You cannot use entrepreneurs by announcing that something has been negotiated with them when in reality they have only been informed," they explain on the business side.

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