SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Feb. 21 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The general secretary of the UGT, Pepe Álvarez, has endorsed this Monday the extension of the ERTE until March 31, although they would have preferred them to last until Easter, and denied that the transition to the new RED model is a “gibberish”, among others things because the regulations have not been developed.
In statements to journalists on the occasion of a meeting of the organization in Tenerife, he said that throughout the month of March it will be necessary to make the “transition” to the new system and therefore “analyze” which companies and sectors are involved because the tourism, for example, “is recovering and every day there are fewer reasons, fortunately, to maintain the ERTE”.
Álvarez has indicated that the objective of the new system is to have “the least bureaucracy possible, to be efficient, not to give rise to fraud and there to be no sterile paperwork”, and then to analyze future viability “company by company”, knowing that there are some , like those of the travel agencies that “are going to have difficulties” and will have to study “how to relocate these workers.”
“There will be all the necessary coverage for companies that have not recovered from Covid, no one is going to be let down,” he commented.
He has also said that the agreement on the pension system is a “historic change” in Social Security because it is no longer thought of “how to cut pensions but rather how to collect more to maintain and improve benefits.”
He pointed out that the negotiation of the self-employed is pending, that “they must contribute according to what they earn” to help make the system “less in deficit for the country and that those who earn less do not contribute more than they can”.
THE LABOR REFORM: AN “ABSOLUTE SUCCESS”
Álvarez has branded the labor reform an “absolute success, without palliatives”, while waiting to negotiate the dismissal, since hiring goes from temporary to indefinite, something that “will happen in a few months”, and both companies and workers must be “aware” that the indefinite contract will be the main one. “It is impossible to continue with the pockets of precariousness in public and private companies,” he has indicated.
Álvarez does not understand that the companies are “a valley of tears” and made it clear that “now there is no possibility of escaping” or “fraud” the companies because the contracts will be indefinite.
He has also highlighted that the rise in the Interprofessional Minimum Wage is “great news” because it serves to create employment and improve the lives of citizens, especially in the Canary Islands, which “is very far” from the average salary, while it has recalled that in 2022 the Government promised to reach 60% of the average salary and therefore set the SMI at 60%.
