ten days general elections between 23 July, PSOE launched a nod to small and medium-sized companies and a notification to the CEOE of large employers. transport ministers, Rachel Sanchez, and Industry, Hector Gomez, supported Conpymes, an organization established in 2021 as an alternative to the only legally recognized organization so far as the state representative of entrepreneurs, at its general meeting. “We recognize the need for a representative social dialogue,” Gómez said in front of Conpymes’ enthusiastic leaders.
” make it knownmost representative social agent“and so he can sit face-to-face with the CEOE, CCOO And UGT negotiating reforms. labor wave pensions It is the main claim of SMEs. This organization is supported and supported by Pimec, the Catalan employers’ association, which in 2019 – after nearly 12 years of legal disputes – managed to rank in Catalonia with the historic employers’ association Foment del Treball.
Conpymes brings together industry organizations such as COAG (farmers and ranchers) and Fenadismer (carriers), Uatae automobile company, regional employers’ associations such as Catalan Pimec, Valencian Unión Gremial, Balearic Pimeb and Castilian-Leonese CES. others, with over two Million associated companies and freelancers.
Just as there is a well-known bipartisanship between unions, Conypmes desires the same as the CEOE, because it feels that a neighborhood business cannot be represented by the same company that responded to El Corte Inglés, and this creates a bias. Legislation contrary to the interests of SMEs. Currently, officially, the legally recognized representative of SMEs pocketAn organization affiliated with and integrated with the CEOE.
“We need to be in social dialogue, […] Conpymes chairman affirmed that it must be “democratized” and ceased to be “the monopoly of the few”, Jose Maria Torresduring the intervention. While they didn’t take action to move towards said homologation during the current legislature, they got the gauntlet for the future from the Executive. Emphasizing that they provide “added value” and that “the closer the business world is, the better we make decisions”, the Minister of Industry opened the door for “agents such as SMEs to be included in the company”.
Guilt and the second chance law
In addition to its place at the same table with the CEOE, Conpymes requested new measures from the PSOE. guilt and the law second chance If the government approves it again. Torres has called for measures to penalize late payments, as he denounces large companies’ zero-cost financing of themselves at the expense of deliberately taking the time to pay their smaller suppliers.
On the first issue, the Socialists limit themselves to having in their programs the phrase “We will continue to work to reduce negligence in business transactions as a necessity to increase the competitiveness and viability of our SMEs and self-employed.”
And regarding the second chance law, the leader of Conpymes has called for a new regulation that gives a failed businessman the ability to start another project again. And this failed attempt—and its backlog of debt—doesn’t denounce “the bankrupt economy and social exclusion.” A second chance law was not explicitly designed in the PSOE program, although the Minister of Industry stated that they were “fully aware” of the problem and would “become allies”.