This is indicated by sources from the CEOE management, consulted by EL ESPAÑOL-Invertia. “We will fight in Congress“, they assure. In this way, the employers’ association will strengthen the dialogue with the parliamentary groups, convincing them not to support the reduction of the working day.
“We will explain and re-explain our arguments to obtain their support”, namely that reductions in working hours must remain, as until now, within the framework of collective bargaining.
These are movements that are not new. The employers’ organization, through the Foment del Treball, already maintained contacts with Junts in October so that the Puigdemont team rejected Díaz’s proposal. It is good to remember that These votes are essential for virtually any government initiative to thrive in Congress..
Does the CEOE consider it viable to block the reduction of working hours in the parliamentary process? “Everything is unpredictable. Just look at what happened with the tax reform and the bank tax. The government has worked hard in this direction. We’ll see if the same thing happens and they want that much wear again.“.
This observation is not accidental. Almost all of the content of the tax reform carried out corresponds to what the Ministry of Finance proposed through the PSOE.
However, reducing working hours is an initiative that bears the mark of Yolanda Díaz. Although he was supported by other members of the Executive, This is not the first time that the socialists have diminished or attenuated a proposal launched by the leader of Sumar.
Government meeting with social agents.
Curiously, at the very moment when the leaders of CEOE and Cepyme, Antonio Garamendi and Gerardo Cuerva, were in a meeting with Pedro Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz to be informed of the new measures for those affected by DANA, Joaquín Pérez Rey, Secretary of State for Labor, indicated that the negotiation on the reduction of working hours would continue without the employers association. And therefore the aid to SMEs that was offered until now has disappeared.
Labor thus culminated in the threat that Díaz herself had made in mid-October, when she had warned the CEOE that, if it did not participate in an agreement, Business benefits would be removed.
“It’s nothing we didn’t expect,” admit the employer sources consulted. “We knew this was going to happen.”
From the top of the employers’ association, we assure that this was in the CEOE’s plans and that it was accepted. Despite what some media report, There is “absolute unity” regarding the strategy followed in this matter by Antonio Garamendi.
