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Monday, December 28, 2020 - 22:02

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Yolanda Díaz, Minister of Labor, will attend the last Council of Ministers of the year tomorrow with a debate proposal that she does not want to consider buried.

Despite the fact that in the last two weeks his opinion that the interprofessional minimum wage (SMI) must be raised has been

rejected by the spokesperson María Jesús Montero and the Vice President of Economic Affairs, Nadia Calviño

, the head of Labor will reopen the discussion by proposing that the Government commit to reviewing the decision

ion that he will take tomorrow, which is to keep the SMI at 950 euros. The minimum wage is the biggest defeat that Díaz has suffered in the Government since he took office almost a year ago.

Although his confrontation with Calviño has been constant, in the rise in the SMI for 2021 he played stronger and, despite initially indicating that the Government would raise it, the Council of Ministers

will not assume their opinion, validating that of the vice president

Government sources admit that the extension of the validity of the royal decree that established the SMI of 2020 is part of the issues to be analyzed at the meeting of the Council of Ministers tomorrow.

It is foreseeable that this point on the agenda reopens the debate of recent weeks, in which United We can propose a rise, even if it is 8.5 euros, as Diaz defends, and the PSOE assumes Calviño's position, who argues that it is not the right time, so it can freeze for a few months and move the decision to June, "when the economic recovery is more evident."

In one area of ​​the Government, they defend that maintaining the SMI at 950 euros will not entail a freeze but an extension that

will allow to give "legal certainty"

to the workers affected by the SMI, who could be in legal limbo as of January because it is a decree that is effective annually.

The same sources recall that last year at this time, with the socialist government still in office, the extension of the 2019 SMI validity was already agreed upon until an agreement was reached within the framework of social dialogue that would allow setting that of 2020 This precedent would justify tomorrow's decision, which the Council of Ministers will debate and will have to justify again.

The purpose of those who defend the rise is that the decision to freeze it is explained with a precise commitment on when it will be raised, regardless of when conditions allow it.

The electoral commitment of

United we can

is to reach an SMI of 1,200 euros through an "immediate" rise to 1,000 euros.

At the social dialogue table, the extension explained as a non-freeze is an argument that

unions do not buy

.

Union sources indicate that an extension is a de facto freeze, so they have already warned the Government that, if there is no precise commitment on the rise of this indicator, they will change their attitude in the negotiations that the Government has open,

from the SMI to pensions through labor reform

.

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