MADRID Jan 12 () –
The BNG has proposed to the Government the idea of raising the Minimum Interprofessional Salary (SMI) to 1,320 euros per month for 14 payments in 2025, so that it corresponds to 60% of the average salary in Spain as established by the European Social Charter. In this way, it encourages the Government to go beyond the increase proposed by the experts who advise it on this matter.
In the midst of negotiations between the Ministry of Labor and the unions to revalue the SMI, the Block senator, Carmen Da Silva, explains in a written question registered in the Senate that in 2024 the minimum wage (1,134 euros) represented 51.5% of the average salary, which last year reached 2,200 euros according to data from the Tax Agency.
An amount, she says, that “is very far from the minimum wage recommended by the Council of Europe. “It should have been 60% and, therefore, reach 1,320.04 euros per month by 2025,” claims the senator. in the document, which Europa Press has accessed.
EXPERTS RECOMMEND RAISING IT BY 50 EUROS
At the moment, there is no firm proposal on the table, but the Committee of Experts that advises the Government on raising the SMI has recommended that the department led by Vice President Yolanda Díaz increase it this year by 3.4% (up to 1,172.5 euros) or 4.4% (putting it at 1,184 euros per month).
With all this, the BNG asks the Government if it should not take as reference the same data handled by the European Committee of Social Rights, which takes as reference the salary modules published by the Tax Agency. Next, the senator wanted to know if the Executive plans to comply with the content of the European Social Charter and place the SMI at 60% of the average salary by 2025.
Finally, the BNG has asked what the Ministry’s position will be in the face of a possible resolution of the European Committee of Social Rights ruling on non-compliance by the State with regard to the SMI, and whether it will rectify it to comply “effectively” with the Social Charter.
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