Discomfort at large employer CEO with an increase in the maximum contribution base It is included in the General Government Budgets by the Government. From the business organization led by Antonio Garamendi, which includes a preliminary draft of the public accounts, they described the approximately 8.5% increase in expected inflation as “unacceptable”. increased payment obligations Social Security to companies. And they predict the decision will facilitate neither the ongoing negotiations for the third block of pension reforms, nor a reconciliation around the income deal that the Executive had proposed at his own time to contain inflation.
“In a context where the government insists that social agents agree on a revenue agreement, the Executive itself unilateral decisions In ways that significantly affect this,” he criticized the CEOE in a statement this Friday.
Employers are suing the Manager for a decision they think was taken “behind one-sided and social dialogue” and that they think would increase labor costs. In the new Intergenerational Equality Mechanism (MEI) concept, companies will already have to undertake a very small increase of 0.6 percentage points in their quotas for next year. To be added to the list next year approximately 8.5% increase by increasing the maximum bases.
In a kind of demographic aging scenario, it’s a kind of ‘mini piggy bank’ pension that the government hopes to raise 26,000m euros over 10 years to help pay for the benefits of ‘baby boomers’. According to the ‘yellow book’ published by the Ministry of Finance last Thursday, the general treasury is expected to collect 2,793 million euros in 2023.
Added to this pre-planned increase, which employers have voted against, is, among others, an increase in contributions that will increase the maximum pension from 2,819 euros to 3,059.2 euros per month. this stopping maximum bases is one of two legs The proportion of current negotiations on pensions, with an increase in years contributed by a worker to calculate their final pension.
Employer feels cheated
The CEOE considers that the Government’s inclusion of this increase – on par with other pensions – in the preliminary draft General Budget is misleading. “There is a special table with the social partners to deal with this issue and it met for the last time last Monday, it is not possible to present the decision taken without any communication about it to us and devalues social dialogue“, they stated in a statement.
The idea conveyed by José Luís Escrivá, Minister of Inclusion and Social Security, is to negotiate a phasing out of maximum contribution bases in addition to a disproportionate increase in the maximum pension. There the Manager tries to collect more through the salaries of higher-income workers in order to have more money in the cash register. support the viability of the public pension system.
The various negotiations within the social dialogue are not having their best moments at the moment, and the elections scheduled for next November 23 at the CEOE are not making things easier for the current leadership. Currently, the only candidate to take this step publicly is current president Antonio Garamendi, who had internal divisions over key issues during his tenure—such as support for job reform.