The government's dialogue with employers and unions to agree on the labor reform is not progressing.

Twenty days after the Vice President of Economic Affairs,

Nadia Calviño

, took the reins of the negotiations, forcing

Yolanda Díaz

, head of Labor, to see her initiatives protected, the agreement that must become law on January 1 stagnates. .

The lack of progress for the agreement generates more and more tension between the Government and businessmen, a situation that replicates the one that already exists in the negotiations to agree on structural reforms on the pension system, where Minister

José Luis Escrivá

has already given Folder to the first part of the process with a warning: for the reforms of 2022 it will

limit the discussion process with the social agents, "who tend to run out of deadlines."

Yesterday, the notice came from Calviño, who yesterday warned that the approval of the labor reform proposal by employers "is not a condition in itself" for the arrival of European funds. Although later he clarified that he works with "determination" to ensure that the labor reform has the endorsement of unions and employers,

Cepyme and ATA, two of the main employers' associations included in CEOE

ironically replied that the clarification will allow them to "sleep more peacefully."

The meeting of statements took place while the Government, unions and companies met to negotiate an agreement on the necessary reforms in the labor framework,

a meeting that ended "without progress,"

as unions and employers agreed. The Government's call focused on the issues to be discussed in the training contracts and received in response the request to write a new proposal to be analyzed next week.

The delay in the initial agenda for the approval of these changes was noticed by the UGT and is already considerable. From November 15 as the date to agree and process the reform, it has passed to that

there is no significant progress at the gates of December

. What happened yesterday with the training contracts goes in parallel with the formulas proposed to reduce temporary hiring, the main objective of the negotiations.

Last week the Government withdrew the proposal to limit the number of workers with temporary contracts to 15% of the workforce and offered, with the approval of Calviño, a table of limitations depending on the size of the company. According to the document with the proposal, companies with fewer than five workers could hire one as temporary; two if they have between 6 and 10 workers ... and in the case of companies with more than 500 workers, 4% of the workforce.

"No, we have not made any progress,"

admit business sources, who consider that the proposal reduces flexibility in business management. "If the internal flexibility in the company is minimal, the adjustments will continue to be produced externally and not due to a reorganization of work, which is where we should go; if we give the company security in that, it will not look for other ways of flexibility as it can. be temporality ".

Although

Antonio Garamendi

, CEOE president, has repeated on several occasions that they are different areas, that the first part of the pension reform has concluded with an increase in contributions without an alternative has a lot to do with the discomfort in the negotiation of the labour reform. Entrepreneurs have come away with more than a bad taste in their mouths from their conversations with Escrivá. The person in charge of Social Security raised on November 3 a rise in contributions of 0.6% for a decade to finance the pension reserve fund. Twelve days later, the employers refused to sign an agreement that Escrivá did not move, assuring that he did not receive any proposal from the businessmen.

The Government has resolved with the same considerations the procedures in Congress in order to meet its objective, but the employers have taken note for 2022, when it is time to negotiate a second round of reforms that will include the stoppage of contributions, for example.

Gerardo Cuerva, president of Cepyme, acknowledged yesterday that the relationship with Social Security is complicated "because the negotiations are" to swallow it up. "

Both Cuerva and

Lorenzo Amor, president of the Association of Autonomous Workers (ATA)

, emphasized that the increase in contributions reveals that the Government's approach is to

"squeeze much more"

from those who are "within the system" rather than to attack alternative ways of raising the income of the system, such as the emergence of the underground economy.

Amor assured that currently there is a situation of "tremendous tax pressure", which is being linked to a series of components such as the increase in electricity or fuel and components, "which make it impossible to tighten more because there is no more" .

In his opinion, he is opting for

"a kick forward and greater pressure by raising prices"

and there is another area at the table of the labor reform that raises "greater rigidities in the labor market and tripping over hiring," he warned at the end of an act. to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Navarra Business Confederation (CEN), in Pamplona.

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