The senators of National Renewal, Maria Jose Gatica Y Paulina Nunezthey asked the Government of the President, Gabriel Boricwhich improves the minimum wage bill, which has already been approved in the Chamber of Deputies, and must now be discussed in the Senate.
It should be noted that the initiative was entered for legislation after a meeting between the Executive and the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores, who agreed that the minimum wage will rise to $380,000 pesos in May, to reach 400,000 pesos in August.
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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, looking at the economic context that the country is going through.
Proposals
Senator María José Gatica points to the minimum wage rising directly to $500,000, because the current bill “does not compensate for the increases in basic consumer goods that each Chilean family has to buy every day”.
“A project that aims for $500,000 will have the votes, on the condition that the State allocates the necessary aid for SMEs, which have had to suffer the effects of the pandemic, social unrest and a war,” he specified.
Meanwhile, Núñez indicated that “qWe want to clearly tell the government that in order to have our votes, it must improve the project, since we consider it insufficient and, at the moment we find ourselves, the State’s resources must be delivered directly to the people who need them.”
“The rise in basic products and services is ample reason for a greater effort to be made, just as when the previous government, in the midst of a 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 500,000 pesos later, but people cannot continue to wait and that greater effort, even with the discussion of a tax reform, can be demanded of them now.” However, he clarified that “the difference must 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 people who are waiting for an improvement in the minimum wage have it now, just as we have asked that the reform of pensions is addressed soon and not in the last quarter.
