Labour backs down and opens the door to linking wages and productivity
. The recent visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel seems to have made you change your opinion to the Minister of Labour, Valeriano Gomez, on the issue of whether to link wages to productivity inflacinoa. On Thursday, the minister categorically dnded the revision of salaries is carried out in relationship to the IPC and rejected the proposal Merkel wants to generalize across the, sto gold, EU. One day later, Gmez nuance in collective agreements negotiated in our country for years also taken into account productivity. And yesterday he was initially more open ana the new proposal. In circumstances of crisis, wages must give up part of purchasing power for companies to recompose the results. But prices can not be removed nor of how wages are up. Also said, everquest 2 platinum, it is good that there is some relationship between wages and prices.
To the minister, the difference between Spain and Europe in this topics about not taking into account or not productivity, but in the rest of Europe passes salaries are negotiated over the last inflacin and in Spain is done with the inflacin future. The wage standard, cheap wow gold, no problems when prices do not rise too much, but when there are surprises and increase too is when they appear the difficulties, he explained.
Notice to mariners
Valeriano G3mez words also represent a notice to mariners, and that before the upcoming March 18 social partners must reach agreement on collective negotiation and without the merger, the Government has already warned that legislation, as happened in the labor reform, which may make will link wages to productivity, which also wants employers.
In this case, the general director of Research Department of the Bank of Spain, Jose Luis Malo de Molina, record that our country is the only one of the most economically strong, global agenda powerleveling, EU where wages are linked to inflacin. It is a waste and an obstacle in collective negotiation,
The unions, who do not even want to talk about the proposal or Merkel, criticized yesterday the Bank of Spain, whom they accused of not knowing how wages are determined. Secretary of Trade Union UGT Accion, Toni Ferrer, asked the agency to respect the autonomy of trade unions and employers to negotiate agreements and rising wages. What he wants the Bank of Spain and does not dare to ask is a cut in wages, denounced Ferrer. For his part, Secretary of Trade Union CCOO Accion, Grriz Ramon said to rely on productivity and wage rates is an exercise in imagination if you have some practices into account the lack of transparency and reliability of an index without formal rrence. It is recalled that the INE publishes a quarterly index of productivity per employee, which will not be the most indicated, according to experts, to relate to wages, as it mixes data from large companies, as those of SMEs. Therefore, any change thereto must be instituted in the company agreements, not in those of national scope. This thesis also agreed yesterday Valeriano G3mez.
AUSTRAC Model
Moreover, the labor minister admitted that it is difficult to imagine that can be articulated capitalizacin background with which workers can cover part of the dismissal, also called model AUSTRAC without resort to the contributions of businesses, something that the social pact Discard EXPRESS.
This model, which sold him the former Minister Jesus Caldera Rodr-guez Zapatero is that each worker has a fund or account where it is entering its proportionate share of severance and indemnification when you retire, you laid off or goes to another company, does your account.
During his intervention at the conference on pension reform organized by AFI, Valeriano G3mez rrred capitalizacin as to fund the government should be designed in the June, seconds No mandate for labor reform, and what they intend to put to work in a group of six experts over the next few das.
According to G3mez explained, the fund est called not only to cover part of the prestacin for dismissal of workers, but also, ideally, which does not lose his job throughout their working life, the part of his boarding house. For the Labor, with these premises not be easy to complete the fund without the aportacin of employers, regardless of that, according to G3mez, the dismissal has to cost m ms s that uses it. If the design is expected to not increase the prices to be a bit more complex. Concluded with the expert commission should answer these questions.