Here is my reflection after reading some statements by El Langui
The other day I was reading an interview with the versatile El Langui in El Mundo and the headline was already a bad start. The specific and extended answer was certainly striking. He declared himself "leftist", so we can imagine what his position was when he talked about the role of employees with respect to the company and the situation that is lived with the massive delivery of subsidies. I put it on Linkedin and now I expose you my more personal reflection.
It should be possible to be left-wing and not have businessmen in the spotlight as if we were the great enemy to beat.
We generate employment and, surely, as in all areas, there will be people who seek to take advantage, who try to earn a few measly euros by taking advantage of the needs of employees.
But we really don't know anymore how many entrepreneurs are/are angels and how many are/are demons, according to the left's scale.
The artist commented that "the people are fed up with working 10 hours a day until they are 65 years old and for 1,200 euros and paying 700 euros in rent".
We do not have the absolute truth no matter how much we combine various data and stage a situation more typical of hell. Moreover, I would dare to say that the only truth of the whole statement is that the people are fed up.
Yes, and more than it could be if labor contributions were paid by the worker himself and not automatically subtracted from the payroll. This was proposed by Antonio Garamendi, president of the CEOE, and he could not have been more in favor of the measure.
Look, it is becoming more and more difficult for the employer to pay the payroll, and not because it is automatically going up like crazy.
Unlike in the public sector, where all payrolls are raised annually, in the private sector we have to watch every penny to adjust each of the payments we have to make.
We commit ourselves to periodically pay salaries that come out of the company's cash box, something that does not happen in the civil service. We do not have a bottomless piggy bank to pay and raise payrolls periodically in an uncontrolled manner.
The real story is that the worker receives about 60% of his entire paycheck. We don't keep the rest of it to go on luxury meals and trips, or to light up a cigar when we get home.
There is a part of the payroll that goes directly to the State coffers. Moreover, we have reached a point where any salary increase is 'thanked' more by the Social Security than by the worker himself.
That is why Garamendi's proposal should be fulfilled, that it should be the worker who has to comply periodically with the fiscal obligations of his contract, that it should be the employee who has to pay directly to the State a mandatory percentage of his salary every month. Only in this way "the fed-up people", as mentioned by El Langui, would know how much they really earn and how much the State 'takes away' from them every month.
Yes, we can pay monthly amounts that can be around 2,200 euros and that only a little more than half of this amount is paid into our bank account. But it is not we, the employers, who decide how much money we allocate from the payroll to contributions.
Without simple scales that, as a salary is applied, withholdings, accruals and deductions are adjusted. So I do not know on what basis El Langui is able to launch such a statement, because the employer pays much more than those 1,200 euros that the singer and actor says.
Then there is the issue of hours. Talking about working conditions is getting into muddy ground. And not because it is a taboo subject and we employers should keep quiet about it, but because they are as particular as they are personal and specific to each company.
Will there be abuses with schedules? Of course, without a doubt, but generalizing only manages to create an aura of exploitation, which does not exist in reality.
At Nuwe we comply with the law. We work 8 hours as stipulated and the payroll is paid periodically as we signed the contracts. Perhaps it is time to oppose the hate speech, which always comes from the same political branch, against employers.
We do not keep any percentage of the salary. And what can really happen is that the people are "fed up" with seeing how part of their daily effort and dedication does not reach their bank account. We pay it, but the State comes and keeps it.
