The government is offering employers and unions a Catalan minimum wage of 1,319 euros.

one of the folders Roger Torrent It was the difficulty of enforcing an old claim inherited from the previous legislature when he was appointed ‘member of parliament’ of Empresa i Treball. CKD: A minimum wage for Catalonia, which admits a higher cost of living compared to the Spanish average. Specifically, he inherited it from the current ‘president’. Father Aragones, ‘vice president’ and in charge of the economy. Republicans try to emphasize the singularity of the Catalan labor market with different formulas. Already during the labor reform negotiations, they claimed the priority of regional agreements over state and provincial agreements, but without success.

And they put it in the same direction as the minimum wage. The problem – for the Generalitat – is that it lacks enforcement powers. compulsory Minimum wage And they need employers and unions to make that figure themselves – hence the official name “reference minimum wage” – and they implement it in their negotiations. The first reference ever given by Generalitat in 2019, 1,239 €it has had zero impact on collective bargaining, as acknowledged by all actors involved. There is no agreement that takes this base as the minimum wage, and it has not had an impact on public tenders either.

They ask employers and trade unions to set Generalitat as an example and approve the 1,319.8 euro reference in public contracts. They imply that their hands are also tied by law from the Catalan administration. They cannot legally compel a firm that undertakes the cleaning of a public building or the rehabilitation of that road, to bid at least 1,319.8 Euros for a job. At the social level, they cannot make it binding and can at most require companies to pay according to the industry agreement. And if employers and unions have not previously approved the reference in the contract, Generalitat cannot demand it. A fish that bites its tail and condemns this new reference for the Catalan minimum wage to little or no progress.

1 in 3 Catalans earn less than 1,000 euros

Raising all deals’ salaries to that floor will have a strong impact on Catalan workers. According to the Generalitat’s own data, a 31.9% The proportion of workers in Catalonia receive salaries below this amount. According to the latest figures from Tax Administration, one in three Catalans earns less than 1,000 euros. most of them woman Y youth. The unions therefore welcome the proposal as a lever to negotiate better wages at all levels.

However, the current inflationary context does not favor the spread of this wage reference. Employers and unions have difficulty reaching important agreements. offices and officesAffecting nearly 200,000 workers, prices are rising at an intensity not seen in 40 years, power plants want to maintain little or no purchasing power, and companies are hesitant to tie wages to wages. CPI. Conclusion? The renewal of the agreements is slowly evolving, further blurring the conversations by adding a reference to the Catalan minimum wage, which is 319 euros higher than the inter-professional minimum wage.

Catalonia Interprofessional Agreement (AIC), a treaty agreement negotiated by employers and unions in Catalonia has been blocked for two years. The main reason for this is the refusal of employers to bindingly accept that they must always pay monetary compensation for remote workers. A much lower cost increase than accepting the reference of 1,319 euros per month as your own.

Torrent set out at Consell de Relacions Laborals’ first general meeting of the year to begin implementing this reference in 2022, and is achieving said goal one month and one week after the end of the year. It coincides with the prolegomena of the talks in Madrid to update the inter-professional minimum salary (SMI) for 2023, which is currently 1,000 euros.