Transparency gives Labor 10 days to publish the report on the economic impact of the SMI that Díaz considers "internal"

The Council for Transparency and Good Governance has urged the Ministry of Labor to send the Ostrom Institute the study it commissioned last year on

within 10 days , a study which was added to the one carried out by a commission of experts and which tried to compensate for the one carried out by the Bank of Spain.

According to this organization, after the increase in the SMI in 2019 there was a lower growth in employment of the group with lower wages.

Díaz commissioned the study to the Iseak Foundation, specifically to the Professor of Economics at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU),

The economist, who delivered her work in January, has celebrated the resolution of the Transparency Council on twitter.

"We worked very hard and did the most rigorous work we could to add value

. "

The

, which defines itself as an independent and liberal think tank based in Barcelona, ​​is the one that has demanded the publication of the report since last March.

The agency demanded that the Ministry of Labor deliver the study, under the Law of Transparency, Access to Public Information and Good Governance.

The claim was ignored by Díaz

.

In April, Labor argued that "the document is considered an internal report of an auxiliary nature and that access could be detrimental to economic and commercial interests or affect intellectual property", thus closing the door to what the independent study concluded on the rise of the SMI.

On April 27, 2022, the Ostrom Institute again filed a claim with the Transparency Council, alleging that the Work had not duly justified the real possibility of injury to the exposed economic and commercial interests or the presence of an interest superior to the one protected. .

This newspaper has tried to obtain a response from the Ministry of Labor without success.

The Ostrom Institute hopes that the report will be sent to it at the beginning of October, although, if this is not the case, it may file an appeal before the Courts.

Currently the SMI is 1,000 euros in 14 payments

.

The increase foreseen by Díaz in 2023 is that it reaches around 1,049 euros.

It should be remembered that the increase in this remuneration-setting instrument has been more than 30% since 2019 with an open public debate on whether it affects job creation or even destroys it.

The unions consider the SMI a tool of pressure on an increasing number of wages and value it as an alternative tool to collective bargaining, where the Agreement for Employment and Collective Bargaining (AENC) with the employer is suspended

In addition, the imminent rise to negotiate of the SMI has been included by the Vice President of Economic Affairs,

, in the "basket" of elements to consider in an income pact with which to face the current price crisis.

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