The president of the CEOE has not taken a day, Antonio Garamendiin appeasing the ultimatum proposed by the Ministry of Labor so that the employers sign an agreement to reduce the working day. Without explaining that the business organization will respond negatively to the proposal next November 11deadline imposed by the Ministry of Labor to receive a response from CEOE and Cepymethe highest business representative first attacked the ultimatum proposed and also criticized the package of compensatory measures offered by the department led by the vice president. Yolanda Diazensuring involves encouraging small businesses to “jump off a cliff.” A tone that could be anticipating a final refusal that the rest of the agents sitting at the negotiation table are already discounting.
The employers’ association has been placing special emphasis since the moments after the last meeting held this Monday on turning the focus of the compensatory measures towards validity of collective agreements. As the business sources consulted by ABC point out, this point now focuses the demands of employers, who continue to categorically reject the conceptual framework of the legal reform to forcefully introduce 37.5 hours. A measure that, as Gramendi warned during an event on occupational risk prevention, would cause the automatic rupture of 4,500 agreements collectives, which should be reopened regardless of their validity to adapt them to the new maximum working day of 37.5 hours per week.
It should be remembered that this has been one of the main warnings from business organizations since the beginning of the negotiation that began ten months ago, warning that not respecting the validity of the agreements and opening them openly would cause a funnel in the months of collective bargaining. Precisely, on this aspect pivoted the fact that CEOE and Cepyme will demand from the first moment that the introduction of the reduction in working hours be carried out with an extensive transitional period, precisely to make room for the agreements to be coupled as they were made. winning
«Instead of continuing to go around and get confused, are the agreements going to be respected or are the agreements not going to be respected? That’s the word. I cannot sign on behalf of 4,500 agreements that will be broken tomorrow and the business side will accept what the Ministry says in this case. Very sorry. When the Ministry is wrong, when we think it is wrong, when We think it does very great damage to the Spanish economy“We have to say that we do not share it,” Garamendi explains about the point of negotiation with two weeks remaining for both business organizations to definitively state whether or not they accept the conditions provided for in the job offer.
«In Spain there are practically 4,500 open collective bargaining tables, where workers and companies negotiate. It is surprising that they do not want to respect the validity of the agreements, interventionism in its purest form that tells you that you have to accept what they say because if not, you are not taking care of small businesses. “But what are you telling me?” criticizes the president of the CEOE.
Unspecified offer in a draft
The second part of the fierce criticism that the employers’ association has launched after the ultimatum meeting is the fact that neither this latest compensation consisting of a direct aid of 6,000 euros nor the previous ones associated with the so-called ‘Plan SME 3750′ have turned black on white in a draft, and have not been accompanied by an economic report. Sources close to the negotiation confirm this point, having waited for the Ministry of Labor to transfer in a document the joint proposal for reduction of working hours that will be the subject of a decision by the management bodies of both the employers’ associations and the union organizations UGT and CC.OO.
«They did not transfer yesterday’s proposal. Neither the previous one, nor the previous one, that is, there is still not a single piece of paper in this house, but there has never been, in the months that we can have, there has not been a single paper of the announcements that the Ministry He has said what he is doing and what he is going and what he is going up and what he is going down and what he is coming back and so on. “Not a piece of paper, not a number,” says Garamendi.
In his opinion, with the reduction of the working day, the Government “is encouraging small businesses to jump off a cliff». «They tell you: I’m going to give you some subsidies, which I don’t know what they are, they haven’t told us the time frame yet, we still don’t know absolutely anything about that, but they tell you, I’m going to give you a parachute. And no, he gives you an umbrella so he can kill you directly, which is what is going to happen,” he says.
Garamendi points out that the Labor proposal for direct aid has been estimated at a cost of 375 million euros for half a million companies and “it doesn’t work out”, since this would mean 700 or 800 euros per company. He has also criticized the fact that Labor has said that this aid can be used for digitalization when one in every three euros of European funds is already going to digital projects. “What does this have to do with what is being proposed to us?” he says.
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