Employers’ association of small and medium-sized Catalan companies, Pimekapplauded the amnesty accepted PSOE with Together and is already registered as a bill in Congress. Organization headed by Antoni Canete met with the board this Tuesday and assessed that a “clean slate” had been agreed between them Pedro Sánchez and independents will create “a stable climate for both the economy and society in general,” as one statement put it.
The SME employers’ association is therefore different from other large Catalan employers’ associations, Introduction of TreballThe Confederal approved CEOE’s statement that the amnesty represented “a deterioration of our image abroad”. Although sources from the said organization describe the violence felt by the harshest wing of the organization, CEOE in this respect.
Also, contrary to Pimec, Foment thought that the remaining main points were in harmony with other political forces. To add or PNVIt fosters “an increasingly complex business environment in which economic growth and job creation are very difficult.”
Employers of Catalan SMEs give full support to deals likely to be Head of Government Pedro Sánchez four more years. “The Pimec Board of Directors has placed positive value on dialogue and consensus between different political forces in order to establish a strong and stable government as soon as possible,” the statement said. And the side led by Antoni Cañete won with many of the commitments made by the coalition.
The agreement between PSOE and Sumar gives wings to one of the biggest desires of SME employers: to sit side by side with the CEOE and in front of the unions at the tables of social dialogue, negotiating labor and pension reforms. “Rules on business representation will be developed, especially rules on greater representativeness of SMEs in the field of social dialogue, collective bargaining and corporate participation,” the government program states.
The importance of Catalan agreements increases
And the agreement between socialists and Basque nationalists puts on the table another demand that Pimec has failed to agree on with Foment and the Catalan unions: the priority of autonomous agreements over state agreements. This change caused the negotiations to stall. Interprofessional Agreement of Catalonia (AIC) – a sort of Catalan-style settlement agreement – despite Foment’s rejection and the ‘yes’ answer from Pimec, CCOO and UGT. And the failure of the Catalan social dialogue will be countered by the trump card (one of them) that the PNV will have in its negotiations with the PSOE.
Pimec also welcomes the commitment of the PSOE, agreed with the Junts, to promote the return of the headquarters of the companies that removed them from Catalonia after 1-0. The entity headed by Antoni Cañete reaffirmed in its statement that it was in favor of a plan that supports it “as long as it does not imply any privileges for those who decide to keep their headquarters in Catalonia.”