It is not part of the official agenda, but it will be the central theme of the Permanent Committee for Social Dialogue meeting this pie. Both the CGTP and UGT guarantee that will not let blank minister with the passage of the Employment folder, Pedro Mota Soares for social dialogue and want to know when will be scheduled a meeting to discuss the increase in SMN, which is frozen at 485 euros since 2011.
Employers accept debate, but will not be on his initiative that the issue will be addressed. Still António Saraiva, president of the Business Confederation of Portugal (which uses the acronym CIP) recognizes that being the themes in the agenda – reforming the IRS and employment policies – “virtually sold out”, the role will be for the SMN . From the Government side, there is “open to dialogue” and the prime minister has said several times that either make the update of SMN economic indicators and productivity.
On the table are several numbers but the value used as a reference to the study that the Government presented in May to the social partners are 500 euros, an increase of 3.1% and by means of falling prices could result in a recovery of purchasing power, after three years of constant loss and the expected stagnation in 2014.
The Government expects this year to a stagnation of prices, but not yet updated its forecasts for inflation in 2015 If the downward trend of prices is the increase of 15 euros per month for 500 euros, may represent a recovery of the purchasing power of nearly 12% of workers on behalf of others.
If for CIP and the Confederation of Trade and Services of Portugal (CCP) the starting point is 500 euros, the unions put other numbers in the table. João Vieira Lopes, president of CCP, recalls that “always accepted as the € 500 increase in the first year to terminate the agreement” signed in 2006, “but also makes clear that the increases should come into force on January 1 of the year following agreed. This confederation is largely dominated sectors of the NMS, including catering and accommodation, real estate activities or trade.
António Saraiva, the CIP says that everything points to the increase takes effect on 1 January, but points out that there is flexibility in the date for opening the context of a global and since criteria such as indexing of SMN increased productivity are met and safeguard the sectors most exposed to competition agreement. A significant portion of the companies represented by the CIP already do pay close to € 500, remember, so the impact will be reduced.
the side of the unions, these figures are unacceptable. The CGTP requires a climb to 515 euros with retroactive to June and 540 euros from 1 January 2015 “If the bosses block this discussion, we will require the Government to fulfill the law,” he said last week the Secretary-General , Armenian Carlos. The UGT, which has already claimed 500 euros to enter into force on July 1, now wants 505 euro with effect from 1 September and its leader, Carlos Silva, requires that the issue be brought to the consultation table “as soon as possible . “
The official agenda of the meeting of Tuesday, that besides Mota Soares will be attended by the Secretary of State for Fiscal Affairs, Paul Nuncio, included changes to employment policy, which have been under discussion for several months, and reform the IRS, under public consultation until 20 September.
One by one, the social partners have applied to the Ministry of Finance when its proposals in July, were called to rule separately on the draft. Only CGTP distanced himself from the proposals, arguing that they do not represent a reduction in taxes. But among the various partners was a common call for the lowering of the tax burden. The Finance Minister Maria Luís Albuquerque, returned last week-end to not commit to lower taxes in 2015 The position of the CDS again agitate the debate, with the Deputy Prime Minister to champion ” fiscal restraint. “
A concrete proposal that some partners want to see improved has to do with the introduction of a family quotient to determine the rate of pay the IRS. While currently the income of a couple is halved, the committee’s proposal is proposed that each child is also considered and assigned a weight of 0.3 points. The CIP and the UGT argue that from the third child should be given a greater weighting to dependents.
Role of Private raises questions
The role of the private employment policies, one of the issues that today go to social dialogue, continues to raise doubts in some social partners, requiring a clarification of the functions that are likely to play in the placement and management of unemployed.
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