The senators of National Renewal, María José Gatica and Paulina Núñez, asked the Government of the President, Gabriel Boric, to improve the minimum wage project, which has already been approved in the Chamber of Deputies, and now must be discussed in the Senate.
It should be noted that the initiative was entered for its legislation after a meeting between the Executive and the Single Confederation of Workers, who agreed that the minimum wage will have an increase to $ 380 thousand pesos in May, to reach August to 400 thousand pesos.
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Given this, the parliamentarians find that the initiative is insufficient and insist that the State must deliver its resources directly to the people who need it, this looking at the economic context that the country is going through.
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Senator María José Gatica points out that the minimum wage rises directly to $500,000, because the current project “does not compensate for the increases in basic consumer goods that each Chilean family has to buy day by day.”
“A project that aims at $500,000 will have the votes, with the condition that the State allocates the necessary aid for SMEs, which have had to suffer the effects of the pandemic, social outbreak and a war,” he said.
Meanwhile, Núñez said that “we want to clearly tell the government that in order to have our votes it must improve the project, because we consider it insufficient and, at the moment we find ourselves, the resources of the State must be delivered directly to the people who need it.”
“The rise in basic products and services is a reason to make a greater effort, just as when the previous government, in the middle of the pandemic, went from an IFE to a universal IFE,” added the head of the RN senators.
In turn, he also assured that “we know that the government’s commitment is to reach 500 thousand pesos later, but people cannot continue to wait and that greater effort, even with discussion of a tax reform, can be demanded of them now.” However, he clarified that “the difference should be subsidized by the State, this greater effort should not be made by SMEs.”
Finally, he stressed that “the government cannot take our votes for granted, it cannot assume that it has them in its pocket, because we are going to ensure that the people who are waiting for an improvement in the minimum wage have it now, just as we have asked that the pension reform be addressed as soon as possible and not in the last quarter.”
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