MADRID, 6 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The second vice president and Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, announced this Monday that, within the framework of the social dialogue table for the reform of the level of unemployment assistance, a specific subsidy will be created for victims of sexist violence and Compatibility between contributory unemployment benefit and a job will be allowed.
Díaz, in statements to TVE reported by Europa Press, stated that he hopes to soon reach an agreement with the social agents on this reform and trusts that the table meeting this afternoon will serve to take another step.
The minister recalled that in the subsidy reform that was proposed at the time and that overthrew Parliament, it allowed unemployment benefits to be made compatible with a job. “Well, now we take a step further and allow compatibility with the contributory unemployment benefit,” said the vice president.
Current legislation allows the contributory benefit or unemployment benefit to be made compatible with part-time work and self-employment. Only if you are over 52 years of age and receive a subsidy can you combine this aid with a full-time indefinite or temporary contract, as long as the duration is longer than 3 months.
The vice president has stated that the unions are providing “very positive” measures in the negotiation, such as the elimination of partial subsidies, which will now be collected in full, in cases of part-time workers who become unemployed.
In this way, Díaz added, a legal aspect that had a gender impact will be corrected, since it fundamentally harmed women, and about which the European Court of Justice had been warning Spain.
Asked if she expects an agreement today with the social agents, the vice president said that first we have to see how the meeting goes this Monday, which will be chaired by the Secretary of State for Labor, Joaquín Pérez Rey from 4:00 p.m.
“Let’s first see how today’s dialogue table goes and then we will tell what the parliamentary process is like,” said the head of Labor.
The subsidy reform is one of the milestones linked to the fourth disbursement of the ‘Next Generation EU’ funds and to which the Executive must respond before May 20, at which time the two-month extension that Spain agreed with ends. Brussels for the evaluation of this disbursement, which amounts to an amount of 10,021 million euros. However, the Government does not rule out requesting a new extension for now.
THE DAY REDUCTION TABLE WILL CLOSE BEFORE THE SUMMER
Likewise, the vice president has stressed that before the summer she will close the social dialogue table that addresses the reduction of working hours with two objectives: cutting working hours to “have more time to live” and correcting time control because “it does not work properly.” right way”.
“We are working so that the Labor Inspection can know at all times what the real performance of the hours worked in Spain is. The time of life, the time of work, in short, living better. And we will do it before this summer,” said Díaz, who has defended that the reduction of working hours is one of the measures “most desired” by citizens, “whoever they vote for.”
Regarding the position of the CEOE at this table, the minister, in statements to Telecinco reported by Europa Press, has pointed out that the employers, like the unions, are working “with great rigor”, although she believes that “they are divided in the face of a sector that wants to legislate on the reduction of working hours and time control and another sector that does not want to do so.
“In the employers’ associations sometimes there is more politics than in other places. It is a legitimate debate that the Spanish employers’ association has to give that I am going to respect, but I want to recognize that the Spanish employers’ association today is working at that social dialogue table,” he said. underlined.
Díaz has stated that, with the agreement of the employers, the average working day in collective agreements has been reduced to 38.5 hours per week. “Therefore, Spanish employers know that this measure is not only possible but necessary to improve productivity and is already practicing it,” he noted.
