• Yolanda Díaz summons the social agents on Tuesday to close the rise in the Minimum Wage

The CEOE will plant the Ministry of Labor again this Tuesday

and will not attend the meeting called by Yolanda Díaz to set the increase in the

Minimum Interprofessional Wage (SMI)

for 2023 in a tripartite dialogue also with the unions.

Given that the month of January has ended without the Government "having carried out the mandatory consultation on the SMI or having sent a formal proposal", and given that the CEOE has not received a response to the approach it made in December, it has decided not to go to the meeting this Tuesday at 11. "

We believe that the conditions are not met for us to attend the meeting

called for this Tuesday, January 31," sources from the organization chaired by

Antonio Garamendi

have told EL MUNDO.

"We are waiting to formally receive a proposal

from the Government to be able to analyze it in depth with our organizations," he added.

They thus refuse to attend the meeting scheduled for this Tuesday in which the Government intends to definitively set how much the SMI will rise this year from the

1,000 euros in fourteen payments

that it currently stands at.

The Executive received in December the report of the

Committee of Experts

- a group of academics formed by the Ministry itself to determine how much the SMI should be raised to represent 60% of the average salary.

This Committee advised raising it to

between 1,046 and 1,082 euros per month.

Once the proposal was received,

Labor summoned the social agents

to find out their position.

The unions attended the meeting and proposed raising it to 1,100 euros -CCOO was satisfied with raising it to at least 1,082 euros, while UGT asked for 1,100 as a negotiation strategy-.

The employers, however, did not attend the meeting because they

considered the dialogue broken

after the Ministry's agreement with Bildu to reinforce the role of the Labor Inspectorate in collective dismissals, something that they interpreted as a violation of what was agreed in the framework of the negotiation of the labor reform.

That same day, the CEOE sent its written proposal that

the SMI was raised to 1,040 euros

provided that

two conditions were met:

that a system of deductions applicable to the agricultural sector be established and that the price review regulations be modified in the contracting processes derived from Law 9/2017, of November 8, on public sector contracts, to affect the increase of the SMI in the contracts in execution.

This position is the one maintained by the employers but

it never had a run,

since the Ministry does not contemplate a lower rise than that proposed by the experts and, in addition, Yolanda Díaz herself has admitted that she is in favor of raising the SMI to the "upper part of range".

Sources from the employer acknowledge that it

was a negotiation strategy

with the aim of

achieving the lowest possible increase,

but since it has no path, they have opted to definitively cut off the dialogue.

At this Tuesday's meeting, therefore,

the UGT, CCOO and the Ministry

will agree in a meeting of technicians on the final rise in the SMI, which will foreseeably be approved

next Tuesday by the Council of Ministers retroactively.

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