Garamendi misses ‘culture of effort’ and says that the losses are concentrated on Mondays and Fridays

The president of the CEOE, Antonio Garamendi, He misses a ‘culture of effort’ to work in sectors where “thousands” of workers are needed such as hospitality, construction or transport, and has said that it is a question of “attitude” because in the State there are three million unemployed if they are counted “really”, as reported by Europa Press.

In his opinion, Spain’s “big labor problem” is “the high existing absenteeism” and has highlighted that work absences are concentrated on Mondays and Fridays and that “one and a half million people miss work every day in the State.”

During the opening of the business summit ‘Leading in uncertainty’ held in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Garamendi carried out an analysis of the economic situation and acknowledged that the Spanish and Basque economies are doing “well”, but that there are underlying problems that, in his opinion, are not being addressed as necessary.

In this sense, he misses the ‘culture of effort’ in society and recalled that in Spain there are three million unemployed if they are counted “truly” but, nevertheless, “thousands of people are missing in the hospitality industry, thousands of people in constructionthousands of people in transport, and that is a problem of attitude,” he assured.

As he specified, these are jobs “with their collective agreements, where there is a lack of people”, and he has criticized the fact that a part of society defends that one cannot “bring people from outside who, at least, will want to come to work”, and that The employers demand that certain parties defend a culture of “working fewer hours.”

Garamendi has transferred that “in Spain there are 1,600,000 people missing work every day, when last year there were 1,400,000.” And he has targeted youth, since “last year, those under 35 years of age have accumulated 9 million days without working. We know that many of those days are Fridays and Mondays.” The leader of the employers’ association has estimated the cost of this situation at 32,000 million euros, of which 16,000 million are for companies, plus the cost of people and replacement.

Criticism of Díaz for the permits

Furthermore, Garamendi, this Friday, accused the Government of apply the “roller and the chainsaw” in collective bargainingand to “throw out” the employers from the negotiating tables. The president of CEOE has indicated that the Ministry of Labor has concluded the negotiation with CEOE and Cepyme on the extension of death permits after their rejection of his proposal and that it will now seek an agreement only with the unions, according to the EFE agency.

For the president of Spanish businessmen, The Ministry of Labor is “determined to undermine the space for social dialogue” and uses that forum of “concertation to impose its political program.” He has clarified that the CEOE does not question the legitimacy of the Government, but has claimed its space as a social interlocutor, which is “laminated day by day by means of a roller, applying a chainsaw.”

Garamendi has insisted that the employers do not leave the negotiating tables, but rather, as in the case of death permits, they are kicked out. ““Just yesterday they kicked us out again.”he lamented.

“They throw us out of the tables because of the Ministry’s occurrences, the last one with the issue of permits, something that we have not heard about at any time at the negotiating tables and with which, once again, they try to pillory companies and blame businessmen for absolutely all the evils that happen in society,” said Garamendi, who has estimated the cost of this measure at around one billion euros.

He has warned that companies, to maintain and develop their activity, need “trust”; and has warned that for its establishment they will look at “the site that gives them regulatory stability and legal security.”