The unions are increasing pressure on the Government before the meeting of the ultimatum for the reduction of the working day to 37.5 hours, in which the Ministry of Labor is expected to extend the support plan to mitigate the impact on small businesses, this once offering direct aid to these companies with less than ten workers that are being transferred from the vice president’s department, Yolanda Diazto try to add CEOE and Cepyme to the agreement. Such is the level of demand on the measure that UGT claimed this Monday withdraw aid to companies offered by the Government in recent weeks if the employers do not comply with the tripartite agreement.
During an assembly of union delegates of UGT Aragón in Zaragoza, the general secretary of the organization, Pepe Alvarezdemanded that Díaz withdraw the list of aid to companies due to the fatigue due to the iron stance of the organization he directs. Antonio Garamendiwhich so far has not taken any of the baits with which Labor has tried to reverse the refusal to measure. Among them, the most important is the one called ‘Plan SME 375’, which includes bonusesalthough meager according to the employers, for the employment contracts that companies with less than ten workers are forced to carry out to cover the gaps after the implementation of the 37.5 hours.
In this sense, Álvarez criticized this Monday the “blockade” of the negotiation of the reduction of working hours that the CEOE is practicing and pointed out that the Government has to be aware that if there is no agreement, The measure must be approved “bareback” and without “any type of compensation.” “This is over,” he pointed out at a time when the unions have already denounced on several occasions the need to untie the social dialogue table in which it seems impossible to reach a three-party consensus.
At this point, the UGT leader warns that the CEOE “has the opportunity to close the agreement”, warning that if this is not the case, “the reasonable thing is for the Government to seek an agreement with the organizations that want to sign it and from there a processing process begins».
Negotiate in exchange for aid
For Álvarez, the social dialogue table cannot remain open, because the legal and parliamentary process “takes a long time”, so “assuming that the Cortes approve it”, this “will not be done in 24 hours”, but rather that at least “it will take six or eight months”, since the Executive will not approve the measure via royal decree, but with a bill.
«In a little while, they will have passed two years of legislature and we may find that the legal modification is not approved,” urged Álvarez, to insist to CEOE that “if they want compensations” and specificities for some sectors “they have to sit down to negotiate,” because the unions could also “have pulled the plug.” “middle street” and they haven’t done it.
Thus, he asked the employers to “not play politics” and to negotiate a reduction in working hours. «The same in Russian roulette you think you are going to win but you are going to lose no matter what, because in the end The reduction in working hours is going to be done because it is an imperative», Álvarez ventured, to conclude that the parties will not want to go to the elections without having reduced the day, as it may influence the vote of a part of the citizens.
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