MADRID, 8 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Second Vice President and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, relied this Wednesday on data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to defend that the measures being deployed by the Government “are effective”, during her speech in the control session in Congress.
Díaz has referred, specifically, to the labor reform and has specified that the OECD “says that the labor market has improved” in terms of permanent contracts, reduction in unemployment and reduction in youth unemployment.
“The OECD highlights what the Government of Spain has been saying about the labor reform for a long time,” Diaz responded to the Vox deputy Inés Cañizares.
The Minister of Labor has stressed that the Executive “is going to continue applying measures that are effective” to fight against precariousness in Spain. Thus, it has guaranteed the increase in the Minimum Interprofessional Salary (SMI), which should be set at 60% of the average salary in Spain by 2023, and the revaluation of pensions in accordance with the Consumer Price Index (CPI), “a despite inflation levels”, as established by the new law.
Díaz has contrasted the economic measures of the Government with “the radical program” that Vox defends and that “they would come to apply, in the event that they govern with the PP”, as he added in his turn to speak. The head of Labor has criticized that the Vox program contemplates garbage contracts for young people, privatization and reduction of pensions, free dismissals, lowering of the SMI and cutting of strike rights.
“You want to generate conflicts. People don’t want that,” Diaz settled.
Díaz has again expressed his differences with the governor of the Bank of Spain, Pablo Hernández de Cos, although the tone has been more relaxed than last week, when he spoke of “biases” and “ignorance” on the part of the institution.
To the question of Cañizares about whether he considered Hernández de Cos “inept in labor matters”, Díaz has assured that he is not, and has disfigured the deputy who resorts to insult in his interventions.
“I am not in the habit of insulting anyone, not even when I was a deputy and asked questions. I think it is possible and compatible to be courteous to this House and also have institutional respect and not share the opinions of the governor of the Bank of Spain,” Díaz said in your replica.
