Cabinet to approve minimum wage freeze, say unions
CCOO and UGT argue that workers’ purchasing power has not stopped falling since 2007
The Cabinet is expected today to approve a freeze on the minimum wage for next year, unions said Thursday.
This would mean that salaries will remain at a minimum of 645.30 euros per month in 14 payments. In other words, workers who put in a full day’s work in Spain will earn at least 9,034.20 euros annually.
The CCOO and UGT unions made the government’s proposed freeze public in joint statements in which they rejected the government’s plan.
Union leaders said that the Spaniards’ purchasing power continues to fall and many workers cannot make ends meet at the end of the month. The purchasing power of Spaniards has continued to drop since 2007, the CCOO and UGT said.
Last year, the government of Mariano Rajoy decided to increase the national minimum wage by a slight 0.6 percent after a freeze for 2012.
The unions said they had not seen the proposal until Thursday morning, when the government sent it to them.
Tu suscripción se está usando en otro dispositivo
¿Quieres añadir otro usuario a tu suscripción?
Si continúas leyendo en este dispositivo, no se podrá leer en el otro.
FlechaTu suscripción se está usando en otro dispositivo y solo puedes acceder a EL PAÍS desde un dispositivo a la vez.
Si quieres compartir tu cuenta, cambia tu suscripción a la modalidad Premium, así podrás añadir otro usuario. Cada uno accederá con su propia cuenta de email, lo que os permitirá personalizar vuestra experiencia en EL PAÍS.
¿Tienes una suscripción de empresa? Accede aquí para contratar más cuentas.
En el caso de no saber quién está usando tu cuenta, te recomendamos cambiar tu contraseña aquí.
Si decides continuar compartiendo tu cuenta, este mensaje se mostrará en tu dispositivo y en el de la otra persona que está usando tu cuenta de forma indefinida, afectando a tu experiencia de lectura. Puedes consultar aquí los términos y condiciones de la suscripción digital.
Últimas noticias
All the effects of gentrification in one corner of Mexico’s Colonia Roma
Palestinian reporter Youmna El Sayed: ‘My family told me I had to choose between being a journalist or a mother’
‘Sleepless City’: The light of cinema illuminates Madrid’s Cañada Real shantytown
The new language of the workplace: Knowing how to ask AI questions is more important than using it
Most viewed
- The low-cost creative revolution: How technology is making art accessible to everyone
- Christian Louboutin: ‘Young people don’t want to be like their parents. And if their parents wear sneakers, they’re going to look for something else’
- US sanctions against jailed cartel leader ‘El Marro’ highlight Mexico’s lack of control over its prisons
- Liset Menéndez de la Prida, neuroscientist: ‘It’s not normal to constantly seek pleasure; it’s important to be bored, to be calm’
- ‘El Limones’ and the growing union disguise of Mexican organized crime
