SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, January 12. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of CEOE-Tenerife, Pedro Alfonso, rejected this Friday the 5% increase in the Minimum Interprofessional Wage agreed by the Government with the unions and has warned of the impact it will have on some sectors such as agriculture.
“They are having a very bad time,” he said in a statement released by the employers’ association in which he also warned that the cost situation for companies “is increasingly unbearable.”
Alfonso has said that the increase in the SMI is “very bad news” which also confirms that social dialogue “does not exist.”
“It is clear that here the changes and adaptations of the economy are only being carried out unilaterally and without dialogue and also in a biased manner against businessmen,” he commented.
He has also pointed out that this measure will have repercussions on the economy because companies, “to the extent they can”, are going to pass it on to prices in such a way that “what the Government is doing” is helping it to “rebound” ” inflation.
He has also said that in the Canary Islands the consequences will be greater because its economy is based on services and salaries are below the national average and instead of “safeguarding” the competitiveness and even the “viability” of companies, what What the Ministry of Labor does is put “its feet on top” of companies, the self-employed and SMEs.
Afonso recalled that the businessmen proposed an increase similar to the one approved by the Government but with an accompanying “effort” from the administration to update the prices of works and services “because if not, that money goes directly to losses for the companies.” companies”.
