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The Minister of Inclusion Social Security and Migration Jos Luis Escriv stressed that both reforms will facilitate more sustainable and inclusive growth. Part of the pension reform is already in the parliamentary process and the labor reform is at the social dialogue tableIn his speech at the Gipuzkoa Business Forum organized by Diario Vasco Jos Luis Escriv stressed that the pension reform and labor reform are essential to generate certainty and guarantee social cohesion and increase human capital facilitating growth more sustainable and inclusive .The minister has assured that looking to the future it is necessary to make policies that eliminate uncertainty and allow stable decision-making frameworks highlighting the importance of labor reform aimed at seeking a balance between flexibility and efficiency.In this area he highlighted the importance of deploying a new model based on internal flexibility such as the ERTE mechanism which has been a model tested successfully during the crisis. In fact he highlighted that ERTE and the benefits for the self-employed have been fundamental to protect employment and the productive fabric in Euskadi which has already recovered the level of employment prior to the start of the pandemic. In addition within the recovery of employment some sectors have been particularly dynamic as Escriv has pointed out highlighting the good performance in RD computer science and information chemical and pharmaceutical industries .In this sense the minister pointed out that this experience shows that in the future ERTEs should continue to play a key role in providing flexibility to the labor market and stressed that in this area some elements that have been especially positive in the Basque Country such as the establishment of close cooperation between centers and companies that allows the transfer of knowledge within vocational and dual training.Training will also be key according to Escriv for the development of inclusion policies. In this sense Escriv has highlighted the importance of launching inclusion itineraries for the beneficiaries of the Minimum Vital Income and has announced the upcoming signing of an agreement with the Basque government to carry out a pilot project in which training itineraries will be intervened and job placement for 400 households with long-term unemployed persons and beneficiaries of the Basque IMV or RGI.In addition Escriv stressed that the pension reform which is currently in the parliamentary process will also be essential to give certainty to citizens with far-reaching measures to guarantee the purchasing power of pensions and reinforce the sustainability of the system.In the area of pensions the Minister of Inclusion has also highlighted the importance of the reform of complementary social security by promoting the second pillar. In this sense Escriv highlighted that the reform includes some elements of the model of the Basque Social Welfare Entities which have a very relevant scope such as the differentiated taxation between individual and collective plans or the central role of collective bargaining for the expansion of employment plans .Subsequently the Minister of Inclusion accompanied by the delegate of the Government in the Basque Country Denis Itxaso has moved to the headquarters of the provincial directorates of the Social Security entities where he has met with the workers and thanked them for their I am working so that the deployment of aid during the pandemic reaches citizens and the productive fabric as quickly as possible.Finally together with the Mayor of San Sebastin Eneko Goia and the Deputy Minister of Employment and Inclusion of the Basque Government Alfonso Gurpegui and the General Secretary for Inclusion and Social Welfare Objectives and Policies Milagros Paniagua has toured the facilities of the Gureak business group specialized in the inclusion of workers with disabilities. The minister has valued these initiatives that manage stable and adapted opportunities for these people and has indicated that the final objective of the Minimum Vital Income is the integration of the most vulnerable.
