Today, on 3 July, representatives of the CEOE and Cepyme employer organisations and of the CCOO and UGT trade unions penned an agreement with Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez to “reactivate” the country’s economy and boost jobs. This solemn signing ceremony, which took place in the gardens of the Moncloa Palace, the official residence and workplace of the prime minister, seeks to highlight the importance of the efforts to cultivate dialogue between social partners, in order to find common ground, and raise awareness thereof. The text brings together both the agreements reached in recent months in response to the economic emergency and the broad outlines of work embarked upon in view of economic and social rebuilding in the aftermath of Covid-19.
Content symbolic in nature. For the past six months, and especially since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis, employer and trade union representatives have actively contributed to developing mechanisms to protect workers and keep companies afloat, in order to facilitate the transition to resuming business and getting the economy up and running again. The text of the agreement, the content of which is essentially symbolic, includes all the points resulting from the negotiations, from the incre
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