The Second Vice President of the Government and Minister of Labor and Social Economy,

Yolanda Díaz

, assured this Monday that she was confident that the latest document offered on Sunday by her Ministry at the social dialogue table with employers and workers "brings the positions very close."

"We are working and we have been doing it all weekend to close an agreement and the last document passed yesterday brings the positions very close," explained the minister in an interview collected by Europa Press, on Cadena Ser in the Canary Islands.

Díaz explained that there will be ERTE "until the end of January with characteristics appropriate to the moment in which we are, moving to an economy that is recovering little by little and that comes out of the enormous crisis" in which it has been.

But, he stressed, these mechanisms will have "new characteristics", such as that "the time will be used so that [workers at ERTE] can train".

"We choose, he explained, to give training in companies that exceed 10 workers in order not only to defend them but also to re-qualify in case it was necessary to have a gateway to other productive sectors," he said.

"PRUDENCE" ON PENSIONS

The minister was also asked about the statements of the Minister of Social Security,

José Luis Escrivá

, to the newspaper

ARA

in which he asked for a "

cultural change"

and opened the possibility of working until the age of 75.

"I would ask for prudence," said Díaz, in a debate of the "utmost importance" such as that of pensions.

For the minister, what the government has "to do" is "to improve public pensions" and said that "the measures that have been outlined [by the minister] are

not contemplated in the government agreement."

Thus, he stressed that they are in the "final process of promoting a major reform of the labor system" that serves to "modernize the labor market" and that they are "going to comply."

"We are in the exit process," he maintained.

Escrivá explains

Before the commotion that his words have generated.

the Minister of Social Security himself has wanted to clarify, through a thread on Twitter, that he has not raised the obligation to retire at 75 years of age.

"In no case do I raise the need to work until the age of 75 as some suggest, but rather to

promote measures that contribute to changing the mentality

of companies so that they do not expel workers from the labor market after 55 years, wasting their experience," he says the holder of Social Security.

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