The increase of unified basic salaryIn addition to providing greater liquidity to workers, it also has an impact on the rise in production costs, alimony, traffic fines, among others. This is because these types of payments are calculated based on a percentage or number of unified basic salaries (SBU) or unified basic remunerations (RBU).
Diego Fernando Cueva, expert in economic and financial issues and professor at the Private Technical University of Loja (UTPL), explains that the effects of the new salary in the business sphere have to do in the first instance with having to cover a higher salary burden for its collaborators. Contributions to the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (IESS) are also increased, the tenths.
The Ecuadorian Business Committee rejects the $25 increase in basic salary. They assured that “this measure has a negative impact on job creation.” The employers explained that with the new salary for 2023 the minimum cost of hiring a worker rises. This considering the legal contributions to the IESS, a contribution to the IECE, another to the National Training and Education Council (CNCF), the tenths and the reserve funds. According to the calculation of the Guayaquil Chamber of Commerce, while in 2022 the cost in one year for a worker who earns the basic was $6,990.14 and in 2023 it will be $7,405.56.
For Cueva, the problem with the increases is that the employer sees optimizing the human resource as a way out, since he cannot cover the higher expenses.
In the meantime, remember that traffic fines are calculated with respect to a fixed number of base salariesas the salary increases, the increase amount also increases.
In the scope of these fines that appear in the National Traffic Law, they all go up. For example, those who commit first-class transportation offenses have a fine of four unified basic worker’s remunerations. This, until 2022 would have been $1,700, while by 2023 it will be $1,800.
Second-class offenses that are equivalent to six unified basic worker remunerations rise from $2,550 in 2022 to $2,700 in 2023. The same behavior will register fines for third-class infractions, which will be sanctioned with a fine of eight remunerations. While in 2022 they were equivalent to $3,400, now in 2023 they will be $3,600.
Other types of fines such as tolls are also increased. For example, the fine for not paying the toll on the General Rumiñahui highway amounts to 15% of the SBU. In 2022 it was at $63.75 and it will go up to $67.5 in 2023.
The alimony They also register an increase due to the increase in salary. It is that the alimony is calculated with respect to the income that the worker has and according to the family responsibilities.
For example, for those who earn 1 basic salary or 1.25 basic salaries, a payment of 28.12% of income is applied in the case of having a child between 0 and 2 years of age. With the base salary of $425, the monthly payment is $119.51, but with the increase it will reach $126.54.
business stance
For him Ecuadorian Business Committee The increase in the basic salary benefits about 215,000 people, according to figures as of October from the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC), but it is counterproductive because there are 5.7 million people who do not have a job or whose income does not reach the SBU. In the current situation, an excessive increase in wages only complicates the generation of quality jobs for those most in need and can also raise the cost of living for citizens as it is reflected in the value chain. “Increasing the unified basic salary does not increase adequate employment,” it was pronounced in a statement.
The union ensures that productivity is still below pre-pandemic levels, so it is not the right time to increase the basic salary. And from the productive sector they consider that this decision “is a technical error and that the measures to give flexibility to contracting become more urgent than ever.”
“Instead of making hiring more expensive, we must focus our efforts on facilitating the creation of adequate employment,” says the Committee. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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