MADRID, 12 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Professional Association of Cleaning Companies (ASPEL) has demanded political will from the Government to change the Law on deindexation and the Law on public sector contracts in the services sector (LCSP).
“Changing this regulation would make it possible to offer quality services throughout the duration of the contracts”, stated the president of ASPEL, Juan Díez de los Ríos and a member of the CEOE, after the words of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, claiming to the companies “to be up to the task” and the announcement of the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, to raise the Interprofessional Minimum Wage (SMI).
“We ask the Government and, especially the Ministries of Finance, changes in its LCSP and the Economy, reform its Deindexation Law helped by Labor and by the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, José Luis Escrivá. It is essential that Everyone help and the full weight of the changes that they ask us in costs does not fall on the companies”, stressed the president of Aspel.
“What business owner assumes signing a cleaning contract for 5 years and in the first or second year the costs change by Royal Decree of the Government and he has to be obliged by law to stay and assume the losses that these changes produce until the end ?”, has pronounced Díez de los Ríos, who has insisted that it is necessary to reform the Deindexation Law so that the contracts in execution for salaries, IPC or SMI are not unbalanced.
“It is not so much what it affects, only that 20% of the signed cleaning contracts in execution allow us to review prices, which are essential for society, as they have already allowed for construction works with RD 3/22 The cleaning sector does not refuse to raise wages, but asks the administration to help and thus assume the same obligations that are required of the private sector,” he said.
At the same time, they have denounced that it is “unacceptable” for companies to sign contracts with compulsory extensions and without reviewing them for the next five years and that, subsequently, revision clauses are included in the CPI or wage increases. From ASPEL, they propose to remove the mandatory extensions of the public cleaning contracts and return to the agreement between the parties again in the LCSP.
