After the government announced that the Minimum Vital Remuneration (RMV) in the country will increase from S/ 930 to S/ 1,025 from May 1 of this year, the Lima Chamber of Commerce (CCL) warned that far from benefiting workers, it will harm them, because it will promote informality and cause the bankruptcy of many companies.
“Especially in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), unable to bear this cost in the midst of the current economic crisis, which in turn will lead to the loss of thousands of jobs.“, Held.
The union questioned that the measure was taken quickly, without due technical analysis by the National Labor Council, where months ago it offered to discuss and objectively analyze this issue, which did not occur.
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“Due to the rise in the price of inputs and raw materials, a slowed economy with an internal demand that will grow -according to the Central Reserve Bank- barely 3% and the increase in the cost of services such as water, electricity and gas, this increase in Remuneration falls as a blow to the economy of companies, for which it will be very difficult to assume a higher cost of their payroll, since their income is decreasing”, said the CCL.
He added that, in the midst of a crisis of unemployment, underemployment and a lot of informality like the one the country is going through, raising the RMV favors only a small group of workers, while those who lost their jobs or depend on informality have no prospects. to improve.
“A black market is being promoted, since workers who are unable to find a formal job are forced to accept lower payments under the table without any kind of rights and without any responsibility on the part of the employers who are not there is another alternative to be able to continue operating, due to the drop in their sales due to the recession, they are going through a very complicated situation. These are micro and small entrepreneurs about to go bankrupt”, asserted the union.
Promote the formalization of employment
He emphasized that, instead of imposing an anti-technical increase in the RMV, the Ministry of Labor should focus on guaranteeing that more workers have social security, compensation for length of service, vacations and other benefits that can only be achieved through formality.
“That is what from the CCL we try to promote, that the government adopts the firm decision to raise the rates of formality in employment“, I note.
The CLL also noted that the companies that still have margins to raise wages have established adjustment procedures, through individual, collective bargaining or other mechanisms, for which they generally pay salaries higher than the RMV to their workers.
“But there are companies that, due to their magnitude, areas of operation and their economic reality, find it difficult to face this increase. It is where the margins are smaller and precisely where there is more informality. Raising the RMV in these cases ends up not being real, because most of the workers are informal”, he detailed.
