"

More than fringes are missing. Right now, there is no agreement

."

A source from the CEOE significantly lowered the enthusiasm of the Minister of Social Security, José Luis Escrivá, who this Friday has not hesitated to affirm that the agreement with social agents on the pension reform is "very close."

"In days", he has come to say in an interview on TV3.

But the negotiations and the positions, according to the bosses, are not so close.

"

We are close but the reality is that, for now, there is no agreement,

" they say from the Spanish Confederation of Organizations, while pointing out a notable stumbling block: the clause of

forced retirement

.

Escrivá wants to eliminate this provision

that requires that, upon reaching retirement age, the worker must retire unless the employer and employee reach an agreement to extend their relationship.

This discourages workers from being active beyond retirement age, which is precisely one of the objectives of the minister and a basic pillar of the reorganization that he wants to carry out from the Social Security accounts.

If a worker continues working at retirement age, the time in which the system will pay his benefit later will be less.

And for this, in addition to eliminating this clause, Escrivá wants to promote an incentive system.

The body led by Antonio Garamendi, on the other hand,

rejects the elimination of this clause

.

He wants to prevent workers, by contract, from prolonging their working life, and prefers that this possibility be negotiated between both parties.

And they are going to hold a firm stance at that point.

Layoffs will not be penalized in 2021

Escrivá, for his part, has maintained in the aforementioned interview, which has been collected by Europa Press, that it has been found that in Spain there is scope to discourage early retirement and promote more delayed retirements, although

early retirement would not be penalized in the layoffs this year

.

"We do not want someone who had planned to make a decision to be affected by a regulatory change that occurred. It is not that someone at this time has to change their behavior suddenly," he added.

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