Here are my thoughts after reading a statement by El Langui
The other day I was reading an interview with the multi-faceted El Langui at The World and the headline was already a bad start. The concrete and extended answer was certainly striking. He declared himself to be "left-wing", so we can imagine what his position was when he talked about the role of the employees in relation to the company and the situation with the massive handing out of subsidies. I put it on Linkedin and now I will give you my more personal reflection.
It should be possible to be left-wing and not have the employers in our sights 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 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 the age of 65 for 1,200 euros and paying 700 euros in rent".
One does not have the absolute truth no matter how much we combine various facts and stage a situation more akin to hell. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the only truth of the whole statement is that the people are fed up.
Yes, and more than could be the case if the employee's own contributions were paid by the employee and not automatically deducted from the payroll. This was proposed by Antonio GaramendiPresident of the CEOEHe could not have been more in favour of the measure.
Look, it is becoming increasingly difficult for employers to pay their salaries, and not because they are automatically going up like crazy.
Unlike in the public sector, where every year all salaries are raised, in the private sector we have to watch every penny to adjust every single payment we have to make.
We commit ourselves to pay regular salaries that come out of the company's coffers, which is not the case in the civil service. We do not have a bottomless piggy bank to pay and raise salaries periodically in an uncontrolled way.
The real story is that the worker receives about 60% of his entire salary. We don't keep that remaining amount to go on luxury meals and trips, or to light up a cigar when we get home.
There is a portion of the payroll that goes directly to the State coffers. Moreover, we have reached a point where any wage increase is 'thanked' more by the Social Security than by the worker himself.
This is why the proposal to GaramendiThe employee should be the one who has to periodically fulfil the fiscal obligations of his contract, and the employee should be the one who month after month has to directly pay the State a mandatory percentage of their payroll. This is the only way "the people who are fed up", which he mentions El Languiwould be aware of how much he actually earns and how much the state 'takes' from him every month.
Yes, we can pay monthly amounts that can be around 2,200 euros and only a little more than half of that is paid into our bank account. But it is not up to the employers to decide how much money we pay in from our paychecks.
Without simple scales that, as a salary is applied, withholdings, accruals and deductions are adjusted. So I don't know on what basis El Langui is able to make such a statement, because the employer pays much more than the 1,200 euros that the singer and actor says.
Then there is the question of hours. Talking about working conditions is getting into muddy territory. And not because it is a taboo subject and we employers should keep quiet about it, but because they are as individual as they are personal and company-specific.
Will there be abuses of working hours? Of course, without a doubt, but generalising only creates 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 wages are paid regularly according to our contracts. Perhaps it is time to oppose the hate speech, which always comes from the same political camp, 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 for it, but then comes the State and keeps it.
