Businessmen and workers still have not reached an agreement to establish the increase in the minimum wage. This is one of the conclusions of the day of negotiations on this topic, held this Monday, December 16, in which the Ministry of Labor.
After 2:00 pm, the tripartite dialogue was resumed to advance a possible agreement, but since it was not achieved, it will be given until Tuesday the 17th at noon so that both unions and workers can file the reservations (the reasons why they are not an agreement has been reached), which will be discussed on December 18.
(You can read: Minimum wage 2025: companies and unions still cannot reach an agreement, according to Mintrabajo).
Gloria Inés Ramírez, Minister of LaborAfter the meeting ended, he mentioned that “The subcommittees that have been created to look at the goods and articles that are in the process of deindexing were heard, the 188 that come from previous years, plus the new ones that are being reviewed so that they come into effect”.
Minimum wage consultation table 2025
Businessmen still do not reveal figures
The portfolio manager also spoke about the proposals that both businessmen and labor unions brought to the table. Here it is worth mentioning that Unitary National Commandrepresented by the president of the CUT, Fabio Ariasstood firm with its proposal for a 12% increase in the new minimum wage.
(Keep reading: The CUT remains firm in its 12% proposal for increasing the minimum in 2025).
Regarding this, Ramírez said that the unions’ figure was given confidentially, but that, even so, “There is no agreement, there are big differences, not only in the percentage, but also in the data that is constructed“.
However, the president of the CUT showed his disagreement with the businessmen after the negotiation table: “I would have preferred that the unions came to the meeting with a figure on the table, because that is negotiating and that is what we had agreed upon.“.
Fabio Arias, president of the CUT
Later, Arias mentioned that This would be a sign that there would be, according to him, a true intention on the part of businessmen not to negotiate..
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“From the CUT we continue to express that we do not see any will of the business community in the agreement. They continue arguing and, practically, contradicting the (productivity) figures presented by Dane, in an unusual fact“, he mentioned.
And he added: “For 25 years they never said anything against the professional and technical aspect of the Dane. Today they do it, because surely the figures are not useful to them and, additionally, at the negotiation table, they have not presented any concrete proposal that indicates to us that they have a true will to reach an agreement.“.
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