The rise in the professional minimum wage announced by the Minister of Labor,

Yolanda Díaz

, is a fact that businessmen and the part of the Government that shows resistance will have to assume in the coming days.

Joaquín Pérez Rey

, Secretary of State for Employment,

today ruled out any margin of doubt in this regard.

"The Government is not working on freezing the minimum wage

,

" he

declared emphatically at the end of a two-hour meeting with businessmen and unions on this matter.

The assistants hoped that the Government raised a figure of increase of the SMI, that today amounts to 950 euros.

But although Díaz has indicated that there will be no freeze,

he has not proposed any number

leaving on the side of employers and unions to express their willingness.

The Secretary of State has also refused to set an increase range and has limited himself to pointing out references such as expected inflation or the expected increase in productivity, which would move the SMI between 0.9% and 2.5%, as indicated .

However, the fact that Trabajo refuses to put on the table a figure to be discussed can be interpreted as a clear sign of the confrontation that is taking place in the Government around this decision.

number two of Labor has admitted that, within the Executive, there are different opinions, in reference to

the Vice President Nadia Calviño or the Minister of Finance and spokesperson, María Jesús Montero

.

The final number, 950 euros or 960 or 1,000 is the decision of the Council of Ministers, which could resolve it in the coming weeks.

At the end of the meeting, Pérez Rey indicated that the businessmen, represented by

CEOE and Cepyme, have attended the meeting with "a closed position" that he hopes will change in the coming days

.

According to the Secretary of State, this position is to freeze the SMI or even lower it.

Neither CEOE nor Cepyme have expressed their opinion in the first person.

The unions, for their part, have asked for a 5% increase to bring it to 1,000 euros, pointing out the contradictions of the employers' representatives and, in the Government, the possibility of postponing the fulfillment of the commitments to raise it until it represents the 60% of the median salary at the end of the legislature.

Pérez Rey has insisted that freezing the SMI would be an anomaly in the history of this indicator legislated by the Government since it only stopped growing "in 2012 and 2014 with

Mariano Rajoy

as an austere response to the crisis."

This crisis is clearly different.

The poorest workers have been essential in this crisis, they have given us decisive services.

Therefore it is completely disposable, "he indicated, recalling that in Europe all minimum wages are rising Germany, Portugal, Luxembourg, Holland, Croatia

Díaz's right-hand man in the Ministry of Labor has recalled that in the last year agreements have been reached in social dialogue on six occasions, "It is a process with final results that do not always have unanimous support but the lack of this support does not prevent that the Government comply with its initiatives or explore different solutions with other members. It is different social dialogue of social agreement, "he clarified in relation to the position of business organizations.

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