Escrivá after the rise in prices with employers against: "The Welfare State has to be paid"

The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration,

, recalled that the welfare state "has to be paid for" and that pensions are part of a model that is covered with social contributions that employers and workers contribute to the system.

"You have to pay for the welfare state

that have models similar to ours," the minister said in statements to Onda Cero, where he stressed that Spain has labor costs associated with contributions " well below "the surrounding countries.

"In the end, the aggregate labor cost is what matters, how it is distributed (between employer and worker) is an issue, if I hurry, almost accounting (...) Spain in labor costs is in a situation that

said.

"What we have done is an extraordinarily moderate rise," said Escrivá, who recalled that the agreement signed yesterday with the unions to guarantee intergenerational equity in pensions will mean a monthly increase of 10 euros for companies for a contribution base average of about 2,000 euros, "something quite manageable and manageable."

Breakfast in Moncloa

The President of the Government,

, received this Tuesday at the Palacio de la Moncloa the general secretaries of UGT,

, and CCOO,

, for a working breakfast, at 08:30, along with other representatives of the Executive.

Specifically, Sánchez has been accompanied at this meeting by the First Vice President and Minister of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation,

; the Second Vice President and Minister of Labor and Social Economy,

the third vice president and minister for the Economic Transition and the Demographic Challenge,

; the Minister of Finance and Public Function,

; the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism,

and the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration,

This working breakfast will take place just a few hours after the Government agreed with the unions the Intergenerational Equity Mechanism (MEI), a substitute for the Sustainability Factor of the 2013 pension system reform,

which he left the negotiations after his refusal to raise social contributions to fatten the 'piggy bank' of pensions.

The meeting also coincides at a time when the Government wants to accelerate the work of the social dialogue table of the

to achieve its objective of having it ready before the end of the year, a date committed with Brussels in the Plan of Recovery.

Starting this week, the Executive, unions and employers will hold

, instead of one, according to the Secretary of State for Employment,

a few days ago.

The President of the Government defended yesterday that the agreement with the General Union of Workers (UGT) and Workers' Commissions (CCOO) on the Intergenerational Equity Mechanism (MEI) revalues ​​and shields "the public pension system to" protect the present and future of our elders ".

"We work to build a more just and egalitarian society. And, for this, pensions are an indispensable tool," the chief executive celebrated in a message posted on the social network Twitter, picked up by Europa Press.

In the publication, Sánchez assured that the agreement reached serves "to revalue them and shield the public system, to protect the present and the future of our elders."

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