The First Vice President of the Government and Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory, Carmen Calvo, assured this Friday that she would not raise the interprofessional minimum wage (SMI) now because it has already increased by 29% in the last two years and there must be a balance between protecting workers and the economy and their companies in a crisis.

"It will have to keep going up,

not now

, but it will have to keep going up because it is President Sánchez's inauguration commitment and it will have to be at the rate at which it is of interest to workers' rights and to the protection of companies in a crisis," he said. affirmed.

In this way, the second vice president aligns herself with the head of Economic Affairs,

Nadia Calviño

, in her opposition to the rise promoted by the head of Labor,

Yolanda Díaz

, with the support of United We Can.

The decision has opened a deep division within the Government, which is legitimately empowered to raise or freeze the

950 euros in 14 payments

that the SMI currently supposes, regardless of what the social agents think, whom it must consult.

The debate has become polarized to the extreme that whatever decision is made will require a reversal from Díaz or Calviño if they do not want to be exposed to public disavowal.

In social dialogue, positions are similar, although unions and employers by definition represent often conflicting interests and are used to taking their discrepancies to maximalist positions.

After six big deals in the last year

, the positions of the latter are completely opposite

.

While the employers call to put in the balance the serious economic crisis that the businesses are going through to decide a freeze, the unions refuse to deviate from the path of increases that is still pending to comply with the commitments to achieve that the SMI reaches 60% of the average salary at the end of the legislature.

Calvo, in statements to La Sexta collected by Europa Press, has stressed that his opinion does not imply "disagreeing with anyone", referring to the Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, who has been in favor of raising the SMI for 2021. "Look for a country that has raised the minimum wage by 29% in less than two years. Calvo is opposed to raising the SMI now but assures that Sánchez will fulfill his legislative commitment

We are there, we are not in tomorrow or in the past (...) We have said that there will be a very high growth ceiling in this legislature, but when it benefits the SMI and the protection of the economy in a balanced way, "he insisted .

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