Garamendi criticizes the rise in salaries for civil servants and asks for selective salary increases

Employers consider it difficult to understand the salary increase for civil servants advanced by the General State Budgets (PGE) in 2021 when the price trend will be the opposite.

The president of the CEOE, Antonio Garamendi, has questioned this approach today suggesting that, in any case, it

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Garamendi has extended his criticism of the 0.9% rise in pensions, demanding that the Government focus its measures with greater precision and focus on the most needy beneficiaries of benefits, such as the recipients of

The increase in the salaries of public employees contemplated in the General State Budget project (PGE) for 2021 was already criticized last week by

, governor of the Bank of Spain.

In an 'online' talk organized by the Nueva Economía Forum, the president of the employers' association stated that he "did not understand very well" why these measures are taken when the CPI is going to be negative by another 0.9%.

"We should have discriminated," he opined, warning that they involve increasing structural government spending, something about which Brussels points out that "we must be careful."

In this sense, businessmen are optimistic about an economic recovery in 2021, although they warn about the bill that the country will have to pay for being one of the hardest hit in the world by the coronavirus crisis.

In their opinion, the problems will come in 2022 with the deficit and the debt generated and that is why they reject the increase in taxes raised by the PGE with

for not collecting, hindering savings, investment and that people are interested in being in this country ", in reference to companies that have their headquarters in Spain.

Garamendi, together with

, president of the Spanish confederation of SMEs, Cepyme, considers that the second wave of the epidemic and the extension of the state of alarm until next May have exceeded the protection scheme for companies and workers that It was agreed last September and it is valid until January.

Both, interlocutors of the Government in the negotiation of a

of this scheme, demand that it be automatically extended until next summer.

The second wave of the epidemic has led to a strong growth of ERTE that has had a particularly hard impact

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