Yolanda Díaz charges Garamendi for his salary increase: "I ask him to be consistent and negotiate the salaries of the rest"
The president of the CEOE,
Antonio Garamendi,
has criticized the
"constant attack" on businessmen
by certain members of the Government as part of a
"smear campaign
" against the business world: "This week it was my turn", he indicated in reference to the
criticism received
because his salary has gone
from 350,000 to 380,000 euros this year, 8.6% more
, when he was only willing to raise the Minimum Interprofessional Salary (SMI) by 4%.
In statements to Telecinco and Antena 3 collected by Europa Press, Garamendi has stated that his salary has not increased by 9%,
but by 3%
, the same percentage as the rest of the CEOE staff, given that the total increase of 8 .6% includes
updates from two previous years pending,
hence the total increase is the equivalent of three years.
He has also denied that he has to regularize his employment situation, alluding to the fact that until this year he worked as a leader of the employer's association under the condition of self-employment, while now he has been registered in the General Regime.
"It is false. I do not have to regularize anything at all.
In Spain there are more than 200,000 people like me, who have to pay the Treasury twice. I am self-employed and I will continue to be so because businessmen cannot be in the General Regime", has underlined.
He will continue to be autonomous with his company while he is registered as an employee for the CEOE.
The Basque businessman believes that with everything that is being said about his salary in CEOE a "campaign"
is being carried out to destroy him,
but he has warned that he will go ahead, because "he is from the North and will endure."
"That the Government is sending divisive messages seems very serious to me. He is accusing himself with his finger and now it has touched me, because I am alone", he has denounced.
Regarding the criticism of the president of the
Confederation of Employers of Pontevedra (CEP), Jorge Cebreiros,
that
Garamendi's salary does not seem "sensitive" to him
and that this situation can "complicate" life for the business class, Garamendi has pointed out that his salary "neither complicates nor uncomplicates".
"Forgive the example, but
this is like when there is a rape and they say that the girl was wearing a miniskirt
. I do not accept an octopus as a pet," he stated using an irrelevant example.
Garamendi has insisted that his salary
has been approved by the CEOE Board of Directors
and that it is a decision made within a private organization.
"The only thing missing was for the Government to have to decide what we have to be or say or decide for some to give their opinion on what is done right or wrong," he pointed out.
More underground economy by the SMI
Regarding the increase in the interprofessional minimum wage (SMI) to 1,080 euros per month, which the CEOE has opposed, Garamendi has assured that it will
not affect large companies but it will affect the self-employed
and
SMEs
, and has warned that its rise will cause "more people to leave the legal field of employment."
"Spain has 24% of the underground economy and the rest of Europe has 13%, I think it is something very serious, that we should tackle. In Spain we need open jobs that are legal", defended Garamendi, who recalled that His organization proposed a 4% rise in the SMI for this year, up to 1,040 euros per month.
"We are always going to negotiate with the Government. What seems incredible to me is that when you reach agreements you are a phenomenon and it turns out that
the day you say no, because it is not good for Spain, you become a villain
," he added. .
Garamendi has reproached the Minister of Labor,
Yolanda Díaz
, for having "put it out" that businessmen "do everything wrong and against the most vulnerable."
"That is a lie. Vulnerable are the self-employed and small businessmen, who do not have unemployment," she argued.
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