The CEOE rejects the increase in the minimum interprofessional salary

The executive committee of the CEOE has unanimously rejected the proposal to raise the minimum interprofessional salary (SMI) proposed by the Government to raise it to 1,000 euros gross per month in 2022.

According to sources from the employers’ association, the increase would suppose “a serious risk for employment and for unskilled jobs.”

The CEOE has analyzed in an extraordinary meeting the proposal to raise the SMI raised yesterday by the Ministry of Labor, which wants to raise it to 1,000 euros gross per month, 35 euros above the 965 euros in force.

The Government will meet again tomorrow with the employers and the unions with the aim of being able to approve the increase, which will have retroactive effect from January 1, as soon as possible.

After the CEOE’s rejection, the increase will almost certainly come out again only with the support of the unions, as happened with the increase approved in September last year.

The unions had already indicated their objective of placing this salary, which affects some two million workers, at least at 1,000 euros.

From the employer’s association they add that the increase proposed by the Government has no “connection with productivity” and “recovery”.

The CEOE is in favor of working on a new collective bargaining agreement that allows salaries to be adapted to the reality of each sector and territory.

From the Government, the spokeswoman, Isabel Rodríguez, highlighted in the press conference after the Council of Ministers that raising the SMI is “one more element in the advancement of the dignity of the working conditions of the most vulnerable workers”.