Díaz denies that the rise in the SMI destroys employment: "They are unscientific speeches, there is no data that warns it"

• SMI The Government raises the minimum wage to 1,000 euros with the support of the unions "to raise wages in general"

The second vice president of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, has vehemently defended the increase in the minimum interprofessional salary (SMI) to 1,000 euros that the Government approved this Tuesday, ruling out that there is real evidence that this measure has negative effects on job creation and criticizing the voices that alert him.

"Faced with all the shouting and

that we have been hearing in the last two years that the SMI destroys jobs", the Minister of Labor also maintained at the press conference after the Council of Ministers, "

".

"

, ideological element. It is not supported by scientific bases," continued Díaz, who has analyzed the situation of three sectors that are especially sensitive to this increase: the self-employed, the agrarian and the domestic workers.

And in all of them, according to the figures offered by the head of Labor, the figures exceed those recorded before the crisis.

Díaz, therefore, has attacked critical voices and, in addition, has denied the veracity of works such as those of the Bank of Spain, which found that the increase in the SMI does have an impact.

Specifically, in June of last year, it certified a "net loss of employment of the workers directly affected of between 6 and 11 pp, which would be equivalent in this case to an impact on total salaried employment of between 0.6 and 1, 1pp".

Comparing these figures with those of Social Security, the

Conforms to The Trust Project criteria

Know more

See links of interest

• Last News

• Ukraine

• Ayuso Married

• When does the 2021 Income start?

• Income 2021

• Work calendar 2022

• Economy Podcast

• How to do

• Celta de Vigo - Levante