Sul minimum salary, Spain shows the way to the French cousins. Unlike the president Emmanuel Macron - forced to pay a raise of 100 euros by the yellow vest protests – the government in Madrid has autonomously chosen to put more money into the pockets of the lowest paid workers.
The Spanish prime minister, the socialist Pedro Sanchez, confirmed that next year the minimum wage will rise by 22%, from 735 euros to 900 euros. The increment “will be the largest since 1977”, Sanchez said in Parliament, specifying that the measure will be officially approved during the next meeting of the Council of Ministers, on the agenda for December 21 in Barcelona.
Thus begins to turn into reality the agreement signed last October between the Spanish socialists and Podemos, the left formation born after the protests of the Indignados. The agreement also includes a 1% increase in the tax on assets exceeding 10 million euros, an increase in the budget for social housing, greater protection for tenants and regulation of rental prices in economically depressed areas .
Equal parental leave for men and women (eight weeks) and a reduction in university fees are also envisaged.
According to the newspaper El Espanol, it is the most leftist maneuver in Spanish history.
