Yolanda Díaz advocates raising the Minimum Wage to 1,082 euros but does not say when she will do it or the reason for the delay

• Yolanda Díaz proposes to raise the Minimum Wage twice a year: once now and review it in 6 months with inflation

The second vice president and Minister of Labor,

, competent to approve the

has shown herself this Monday in favor of an increase by 2023 to

in fourteen payments from the current 1,000 euros, but not It has specified when this increase will materialize or

given that the increase is intended to be applied from January 1.

"After learning about the report of the committee of experts (of the Ministry of Labor),

. Of course we are going to raise the SMI without a doubt (...) It is the best measure and the most effective way to improve job insecurity", pointed out the vice-president, who said that

to address the increase again, although different tables are planned in the social dialogue.

"I don't know if this week for the SMI, but we have a social dialogue table," she pointed out.

The Ministry's Committee of experts recommended raising the SMI in 2023 between 4.6% (up to

) and 8.2% (up to

, so given that the vice president has opted for "the high section" of that fork, it follows that the increase will be up to 1,082.

In any case, given that how much the SMI rises

without the need for an agreement with the unions and employers, the delay in the decision is not understandable, when many

to avoid having to do it retroactively later and when

at those wage levels

.

Sources close to the social dialogue

that would be taking place

, where there could be no consensus on what the optimal increase is.

These discrepancies would not be new, since in previous increases of the SMI there have been conflicting

and the Ministry of

, headed by the first vice president

In fact, the spokesman for the

within the Committee of experts has already shown his

with this recommended fork and included an

to the final document in which he

even lower than the minimum recommended by that group .

.

Employers and unions do not have to negotiate this increase with the Government, but

.

In a first meeting before Christmas, the

were in favor of the SMI reaching

in 2023 and, failing that, at the top of the fork,

.

Now, both ask the Executive to come clean as soon as possible and say what its decision is.

The

did not attend that meeting and sent their proposal in writing, in which they ask for a minor increase, up to

in exchange for certain conditions.

Their objective is to try

and, despite the fact that they threatened to break off the dialogue with the Ministry due to their pact with Bildu, they are willing to return to the table if they are summoned to talk about the SMI.

Since then they have not met again and it is unknown when they will, although all parties request

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