Agencies close their January payrolls without a raise to the minimum wage

Sources from a consulted agency explain that from the 15th of each month, they begin processing the payrolls of their first clients’ employees. Normally, sending them between the 20th and 22nd of each month. Y they kept the same figure for workers earning minimum wage this January, as confirmed by the same sources. Frictions within the government will force affected companies to realize the increase in SMI on their February payroll at the earliest. In it, they must add another supplementary payroll with the contribution corresponding to the increase made. “It’s a nuisance for companies, especially the smallest ones,” says the dean of Col.legi de Graduats Socials de Barcelona, ​​Girona and Lleida, Montse Cerqueda.

The delay not only creates additional paperwork for companies, but can also increase friction between management and the workforce if there are several employees whose salaries are specified in the SMI. As Cerqueda explains, Many small businesses negotiate wages with their employees each year and offer them a raise just above the minimum wage in January.

The problem is, if they don’t know what the minimum is, This negotiation has been suspended so that if the government raises the SMI more than it proposes, the businessman does not have to return later. This has created several distortions with recent and consecutive increases, as the SMI was lower a few years ago, affecting more workers each time.

Another innovation that will be reflected in the February payroll regarding low-wage employees is: new minimum income tax exemptionIt is set at 15,000 Euros per year in 2023. Workers who earn less than this new minimum wage will see their net salary increase as the Government will not collect this tax or stop taxing them.

The government is considering an increase of 4.6% to 8.2%

A young woman with a migrant background who works in the service industry or in a small company in the countryside. This is a robot portrait of who earns the minimum wage that the Bank of Spain has agreed to through the unions or the Iseak Foundation in Spain. Currently this wage base concerns the minimum wage of about 10% of the working population, or about two million people nationwide. And given the increase figures the Executive is considering, the total number of those affected promises to approach three million once the increase is achieved.

According to the official report of experts appointed by the government, the minimum wage should increase to between 1,046 and 1,082 euros gross per month by 2023 (on 14 payments). The Ministry of Economy stated that this floor should be 1,030 euros in a kind of special voting. In the area of ​​social dialogue, the employer considers it acceptable to reach 1,040 euros, and the unions will not accept anything less than 1,082 euros and demand 1,100 euros.

Spain is the only state in the European Union (EU) that has a minimum wage and has not yet reassessed it in 2023. The remaining countries are already 5.4% (malt), up to 24% (Latvia). as neighboring economies. Portugal (7.8%) and France (6.6%) applied a raise in line with the suggestions of the experts to the Spanish Manager. like the others Germanyopted for a strong revaluation (+22%) given the current state of rising prices, which had a greater impact on bottom revenues.

The agenda they manage from the Department of Labor is to resolve the internal debate about the minimum wage. before 31 JanuaryAs reconfirmed by sources consulted in the department led by Yolanda Díaz.