The CEOE stands after 12 agreements and dislodges the Government in Brussels: "The following, the labor reform"

A half hour meeting of the executive committee of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE) was enough to unanimously decide the first major disagreement between the employers and the Government on a key issue for the European Commission such as pensions. "And the next thing is the labor reform," various members of the bosses' leadership tell this newspaper if the Government does not drastically change its proposals. For now, CEOE has been planted at the proposal of

and has opposed the initiative of the Minister of Social Security,

, for a new Intergenerational Equity Mechanism (MEI) with which to try to reinforce the sustainability of the system of pensions.

Garamendi is thus erased from the first phase of the pension reform that he himself signed last July in Moncloa when he now finds himself with an unexpected surprise then, in his opinion, such as this mechanism.

The employer thus interrupts a chain of twelve agreements with Moncloa and dislodges the Government from Brussels. Already last September Garamendi also opposed the increase in the Minimum Interprofessional Salary, but that was the responsibility of the Government. The first qualitative disagreement occurs now, because it is a reform in which the European Commission asked the Government to "respect social dialogue" and also a mechanism of intergenerational equity to ensure the sustainability of pensions. In its statement of rejection, CEOE gives a notice to Brussels that the Government fails to comply, because neither social dialogue nor an effective mechanism. “

», Says on the one hand its official statement to explain its rejection. "In addition, the Executive's proposal

as it loads all efforts on current and future workers, especially on young people." The president of Unespa and and vice president of CEOE,

, particularly influenced the videoconference, according to the sources consulted, in this government trick of calling the price increase mechanism intergenerational.

Another vice president, the former Secretary of State for the Economy,

, stressed that the rise in contributions that Escrivá raises barely raises 1.7 billion a year for ten years, a figure that does not guarantee, in his opinion, the sustainability of the system.

The governor of the Bank of Spain,

, insisted on Monday in his calculation published yesterday by this newspaper that the first reform of Escrivá generates a future hole of "between 4% and 5% of the Gross Domestic Product" .

That is, about 50,000 million.

Hernández de Cos made these statements at the Convention of the Association of Financial Markets.

Asked about the effect of the 0.6% rise in contributions, Hernández de Cos insisted on the validity of his calculation and urged the Government to present income or expenditure reduction measures in the pension system "that are sufficient ». Minister Escrivá denied to journalists in the afternoon that the governor had made such a calculation taking into account his new mechanism, but the intervention in the aforementioned convention is recorded. Nor does Fernández de Mesa give credibility with his calculations to the figure that Escrivá gives that his proposal can raise "close to 50,000 million" in a decade.

The disagreement with the Government does not mean that CEOE is going to get up from any dialogue table, but it does constitute a warning of what is coming in the negotiation of the labor reform, in which Brussels has also asked the Government to take into account "To all economic actors."

During the aforementioned videoconference, the president of the Catalan employers' association Foment,

, proposed, according to the sources consulted, that CEOE should be stringing together an explanatory speech of his position in the face of what will be a gale from the Government, disqualifying the employers for their lack of collaboration.

Already on Monday afternoon, Escrivá pointed to Garamendi and the president of Cepyme,

, for "not having presented a single proposal" during the negotiation of the mechanism.

Cuerva seamlessly aligned himself with the CEOE president in rejecting the rise in prices on the grounds that it joins the rise in electricity, SMI and a long etcetera and that, furthermore, there is no cast that Escrivá talks about 0.5% for the company and 0.1% for the worker.

According to Cepyme's vision, 0.6% falls in practice in the company, because the effect for the worker in salary negotiations is already taken into account.

Another vice president of CEOE,

, expressly joined the rejection during the meeting and said graphically on Twitter: "The cow no longer gives more milk."

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