Unions will have access to business margins when negotiating collective agreements

The Ministries of Finance and Labor closed an agreement on the horn this morning to prevent workers who receive the minimum interprofessional salary (SMI) had to pay IRPF for the first time. The two formations that make up the Government have closed a pact to apply a specific deduction this year, as proposed by the team of the First Vice President of the Government, María Jesús Montero, instead of adjusting the minimum exempt that had been applied in the previous exercises. Some terms that Vice President Yolanda Díaz has accepted in exchange for making available to the negotiators of collective agreements information on “real business benefits”, as explained in an interview in La Sexta.

The Labor Manager has detailed that the agreement includes the commitment that the Tax Agency makes available to the negotiation tables, made up of unions and business representatives, what are the business margins of that economic sector. Díaz has put the metal as an example of the agreement in which the workers’ representatives could adapt their claims based on what has been the performance of that economic activity in the last period. This issue was sued by CCOO and UGT in 2023 in full discussion of the agreement for employment and collective bargaining (AENC) that coincided with the implementation of the Observatory of Business Margins by former minister Nadia Calviño, which against the claims of the unions, focused on the competition and did not transfer the information to the agreements.

“If the metal agreement is being negotiated, because we can know in a truthful way what are the benefits that this metal sector has and, in the dispute they have in the negotiation of wages, when the employer tells the unions I will raise only 1.5% salary of agreement because I have few benefits, the unions can dispose of such important information and say that if that data is not real, the salary has to be raised. At the moment, neither of the two wallets has transferred more details on this point when consulted by this newspaper. Although the head of Labor has thanked the leader of the Treasury for their efforts to reach an agreement that also included this aspect that had gone unnoticed.

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Unions will have access to business margins when negotiating collective agreements