The government delegate in Andalusia, Pedro Fernández, has calculated today that the increase in the Minimum Interprofessional Wage (SMI) to 1,080 euros per month, approved today by the Council of Ministers, will reach more than 400,000 Andalusians, “precisely to the most vulnerable groups that since this month will have guaranteed a dignified economic income.”
The measure will also affect access to benefits that use the SMI as a basis for calculating remuneration, such as unemployment benefit, retirement, disability and widowhood pensions or the Minimum Living Income, “contributing to an increase in the number of people who can benefit from them” explained the government delegate. “
He also recalled that “with this Executive the Interprofessional Minimum Wage has gone from 735 euros to 1,080 euros, 47% more, which demonstrates the fight against wage inequality and to reduce the gender gap, since most of the beneficiaries are women and young”.
With the same objective, he added, norms such as the Rider Law, the extension of rights in the work of the home, the labor reform that has multiplied by five the indefinite contracts in Andalusia from the 287,947 indefinite contracts before the labor reform to the 1.4 million in the month of January, “new norms that after a year have shown their effectiveness to fight job insecurity and the improvement of the quality of employment,” he said.