Adopts a new law that unifies and reformulates aid, focusing it almost exclusively on permanent employment, in favor of the over-45s and the long-term unemployed
Support for temporary contracts is over. The government is taking another step to keep temporary work to a minimum in Spain, a country that is at the forefront of this type of working modalities in Europe. The Council of Ministers on Tuesday approved the bill that aims to reformulate the current bonuses that exist for employment to focus them almost exclusively on permanent employment and end the reductions in social security contributions.
For example, from September – the month in which it enters into force – the new scheme will abolish all support that previously existed for temporary contracts, except those signed by people with disabilities, a group for which all incentives that already existed, and those who aimed at implementing family reconciliation policies.
“We fixed one of the major flaws in one of the failed policies that was becoming a dead weight because it favored people who were necessarily better off. The entire stimulus system is disrupted and meets one single reality: they are going to address the spirit of labor reform, that is, job stability,” explained the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, with satisfaction, stressing that the government “knew very well what it had to do” and there is a consensus on the doctrine.
The new incentives are aimed at improving the employability of groups that have serious difficulties in finding a job, such as the over-45s or the long-term unemployed.
Source: La Verdad
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