Díaz anticipates businessmen and unions that he wants to discuss a dismissal reform with a "reparative" approach

The Vice President and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, has admitted today that the time to undertake reforms in the legislature is thrown on top of the reform agenda that remains pending but that she intends to call the social agents to

Díaz, who like the unions gave in on his commitment to repeal the dismissal regulations approved in 2012 to carry out a social agreement last year, has proposed raising a discussion with the social agents from another angle.

"The problem of the dismissal is not in the compensation", he has advanced in a conference organized by the Association of Journalists of Economic Information (APIE).

"The issue is in the causes of the dismissal, where it is necessary to move towards a reparative concept that would vary depending on the profile of the dismissed person."

As briefly explained, this reparative idea suggests that

by leaving an active situation in the labor market.

The criteria could be age, training... and in general the greater or lesser capacity to rejoin the labor market.

The representatives of employers' associations and unions present in the room welcomed, between surprise and skepticism, Díaz's proposal, which still has to resolve an agreement on the Statute of Scholarship Holders, the increase in the SMI and all the negotiation around the wage increases in the agreements before addressing matters such as dismissal.

In any case, this issue would be addressed in the 21st Century Workers' Statute, a commitment that is more than difficult to fulfill but that Labor will try to implement in any case.

Díaz has also underlined the urgency of

, a figure that he affirms comes from the vice president of the ECB and that it is due to the organization's concern that the delinquency of mortgaged citizens rises when making against obligations with entities.

In the opinion of the vice president, the signing of collective agreements in 2022 barely reaches a third of those agreed last year.

If last year the signed agreements affected more than 4 million workers, until September they amounted to 1.5 million.

This means that, with an 8.5% rise in inflation that accentuates the loss of purchasing power of wages and a monetary response that consists of an escalation in interest rates, mortgage prices skyrocket.

Díaz has positively valued initiatives such as the one launched by

, although the terms in which he has mentioned it (freezing of quotas) is not the same as the one proposed by the group.

In any case, the vice president assures that the benefits of the financial sector are going to be very abundant and that the proposals of the banks to help vulnerable households are insufficient.

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