CEOE and Cepyme to Pedro Sánchez: "This is not the time

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The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has highlighted the " broad journey and the unity projected " by the employment pact signed with the social agents, which shows that " when Spain agrees with Spain, Spain advances and gains confidence in the future." . Sánchez made these statements after the signing of the agreement, which was also signed by the presidents of the CEOE and Cepyme employers' associations, Antonio Garamendi and Gerardo Cuerva, and the general secretaries of the UGT and CCOO unions, Pepe Álvarez and Unai Sordo.

For the President of the Government, "that the main business and union forces are Email Data able to reach solid agreements regularly during the last years and months is an excellent indicator of democratic solidity and a message of confidence for us, our European partners and for all the world".

During his speech he outlined the lines of a general agreement, which lays the foundations for creating quality employment that is " green, digital and inclusive", but which leaves the development of the measures to subsequent negotiations at the social dialogue table.

Sánchez has also indicated the need to " modernize labor legislation" and address adaptation for the sustainability and adequacy of the pension system, but also, for the sake of social cohesion, to carry out a tax reform " that links tax justice with the necessary social justice.

This is not the time to raise taxes.

This last point has been criticized by the business leader, who considers that this is not the time to raise taxes and has asked that, instead, the underground economy be combated because it is "lack of solidarity and 'dumping' in a vein against all companies, especially SMEs and the self-employed.

"We are here to talk, to reach a consensus, we have come to add things ," Garamendi has made clear, something that employers and unions will continue to do because " we sit down, we talk, many different ideas and approaches separate us, but that is democracy ."



Garamendi explained that the signed agreement addresses " training, education, digitalization, the green economy or the circular economy, issues whose importance he has highlighted, as well as Spain's presence in the EU." "We want more Europe ," said Garamendi, because "together we are more," while wishing "the best to the vice president for Economic Affairs, Nadia Calviño , who is running for the presidency of the Eurogroup and whom he has assured that she has" “all the support ” of the employers.