The approach of a reopening of the dismissal conditions announced yesterday by the Minister of Labor,

Yolanda Díaz

, took the social agents and also the rest of the Government by surprise.

The First Vice President and Minister of Economic Affairs,

Nadia Calviño,

has chosen today not to comment on the initiative to introduce different compensation depending on the impact of the dismissal and argued that

the idea has not yet been discussed by the Government.

"I am not aware of these proposals, but in any case this has not been debated within the Government," he assured in statements to the media from the headquarters of the European Parliament in Brussels, where he has traveled to participate in two conferences and meet with the Commissioner for the Economy, Paolo Gentiloni, reports Efe.

Calviño reacted in this way after Díaz put on the table yesterday a proposal for "reparative or restorative" dismissals, with compensation calculated based on the personal and professional situation of the worker.

Díaz explained that in the matter of dismissal -one of the aspects that were initially going to be modified in the labor reform agreed upon last year but which was left out- the problem is not compensation

Of course, he opted to harden the causes so that, "for reparative concepts" the dismissal can be more expensive without modifying the compensation scales.

This restorative nature would vary depending on the worker's profile and their chances of returning to a job from unemployment.

Díaz has clarified today that he is not working on this matter, which has arisen at the initiative of the UGT and that he is not reopening the debate

on severance pay, a claim that the unions have maintained since in 2012 it was reduced from 45 to 33 days by year worked in the case of unfair dismissal.

"The reparative nature" of compensation must be different, and this is taken into account in Europe, said the vice-president, who acknowledged that it is an issue that she is dealing with "well in advance" because it will be debated within the framework of the Statute from work.

This new Statute of the 21st Century is an electoral promise of the coalition government that, as this newspaper reported and as Díaz has admitted, it will be difficult to fulfill due to scheduling problems.

The person in charge of Labor has admitted that she lacks time to address the magnum opus of her mandate but that she, nevertheless, will start the work to get it started.

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