Party Spanish Socialist demands increase in the minimum wage – Prensa Latina

December 01, 2016, 08:39Madrid, 1 dec (PL) and The Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE) demanded today an increase in the minimum wage of eight per cent, as a condition to support the objectives of public deficit projected by the conservative government of Mariano Rajoy.

in exchange for agreeing to the spending ceiling, the main opposition force claimed, in addition, to allow the indebted autonomous regions -seven of them ruled by the socialists – having a deficit of 0.6 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

An increase of eight per cent of the interprofessional minimum wage (SMI), set in the present in 655 euros, would raise it to 707 euros.

That figure would be below 800 euros is requested on a proposition of law adopted last week in the Congress of Deputies at the request of the coalition of the left United we Can, a third grouping in parliament.

‘we’ve made that clear to the government to support the deficit target and the objective of debt’, said the spokesman of the PSOE in the lower House, Antonio Hernando, in statements to the radio madrid, Cadena Cope.

It’s a requirement ‘sine qua non turn up the SMI at least an eight per cent’, he added Hernando.

they Also demanded that the right-wing Popular Party (PP) of Rajoy granted to the regions with a deficit of 0.6 percent of GDP by 2017, which would represent additional income of four billion euros to be spent on health, education and social services.

This order coincides with the meeting of the council of fiscal and financial policy, that this Thursday will bring together the economic authorities of the autonomous communities, which have transferred competence in areas that require large disbursements, such as health and education.

The administration in a minority of the PP expected that an agreement with the 17 regions of Spain allows you to clear the way for ratification of the spending ceiling and the deficit target, as a step prior to the approval of the public accounts by 2017, at the beginning of January.

The commitment undertaken with the European Union requires a reduction of the deficit from 4.6 percent of GDP, expected at the end of this year, to 3.1 percent next year.

In a letter sent to executive, the trade union organisations, the Spanish demanded on Tuesday a rise in salary of 800 euros per month in 2017, up to a thousand euros in 2020.

For unions, this increase ‘would recover the purchasing power lost in recent years’, and would approach the SMI to 60 percent of the average wage net, a goal that sets the European Social Charter was ratified by this nation of spain.

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