The extraordinary executive committee of the CEOE, meeting this Tuesday, agreed to propose an increase in the interprofessional minimum wage (SMI) of up to 1.5% by 2026, which means reaching 1,202 euros gross per month, in fourteen monthly payments, and not exempt from income tax.
As the employers defended in a press release, this increase is in line with that planned for civil servants for next year and in line with the objectives of the European directive on the minimum wage when setting the SMI: promotion of collective bargaining, achievement of a decent standard of living, reduction of poverty among the active, promotion of social cohesion and upward social convergence and reduction of the wage gap between men and women.
“To respect collective bargaining, we condition this 1.5% increase on compliance with the absorption and compensation rules of the Workers’ Statute,” the employers declared.
Faced with this employer proposal, the CCOO and UGT unions proposed a few weeks ago an increase in this minimum income by 7.5%, up to 1,273 euros gross per month for fourteen payments, with compulsory taxation of personal income tax.
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