The tensions within the Government due to the different approaches to the process that it has come to call "modernization of the labor market" transcend in public when the second vice president and head of Economic Affairs,

Nadia Calviño

, and the third vice president responsible for I work,

Yolanda Díaz.

Both have coincided this morning with the representatives of

CEOE, Cepyme, UGT and CCOO

in the ceremony prior to the election of the economist Antón Costas as the new president of the Economic and Social Council (CES), a socio-economic and labor consultative body attached to the Ministry of Labor directed by Díaz.

And, in a context of celebration for what the relaunch of the organization should mean so that it assumes a more relevant role in its role as an advisory forum, neither of the two has missed the opportunity to attend to the immediate and show their particular vision of the decisions that the Government must address in relation to labor reform.

The marking of areas and competences of each of the two vice-presidents of the coalition government has intensified at a time when billions of euros are at stake in aid and pending reforms in the workplace and pensions.

Pepe Álvarez

, leader of the UGT, has smoothed over their hierarchical differences by greeting them as vice presidents.

But if, faced with the new responsibility of Díaz as vice president,

Calviño recalled on Monday that it is she who "channels" the policies of the Ministry of Labor

, Díaz has claimed that the social dialogue that she directs acts "without tutelage or paternalism," in allusion to the role that Calviño plays as supervisor and that had its most tense moment last December with the freezing of the rise in the Minimum Interprofessional Salary (SMI) that Labor defended.

Díaz has underlined the need to implement reforms that recompose everything related to the current disturbing landscape of work in the social contract, a deterioration associated with "neoliberalism and deregulation of the labor market."

The vice president has indicated that

the principle of the social elevator that promotes work "has been broken in Spain

and our youth (Spain leads youth unemployment with unemployment higher than 40% in this group) knows it better than anyone."

After eight agreements with social agents, Labor has run into opposition from employers to its project to repeal the labor reform in its most "harmful" aspects.

As in the case of the SMI freeze last December, businessmen have Calviño's protection in order to ensure that the agreement proposed by Díaz to the Council of Ministers has the approval of the employers.

In this sense, the CEOE president,

Antonio Garamendi

, publicly celebrated Calviño's attendance at a labor ceremony.

"The presence of the second vice president seems very important to me because we are facing a deeper debate than the labor debate, with the pardon of the third vice president."

Garamendi has stressed that the role of companies is to "add" regardless of political parties, sense of state and institutional loyalty.

Like someone who brings down an idea that he is flying overhead, Calviño has focused his speech in a very practical way and, in light of Díaz's analysis of the situation in the world of work, has put forward what he considers a priority, which is to "relaunch growth economic and that young people are reintegrated into the job market ", an idea that has been completed by anticipating that" the reformist agenda of the Government "will accelerate in the coming weeks and will be shared with the social agents.

"For this modernization we must have the maximum social

and political

consensus

. It responds to the needs of the vast majority and in particular of young people and women and must be an effective transformation based on a broad social consensus."

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