The boom of this contract remaining so far will change the stats by not counting as unemployed, as was the case with temporary
Controversy between the government and the opposition over the discontinuous permanent contract. The second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, accused the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez-Feijóo, of ignoring the characteristics of this working modality, which is not new but has been significantly modified after the labor reform, so that it can absorb the workers who previously had a temporary work and services contract that has now been eliminated.
As the Minister confirms, neither the name has been changed, nor has the fact that this type of worker is not counted as registered unemployed has changed. They didn’t before. It is true, however, that this ‘boom’ of non-continuous landlines will alter the unemployment statistics that have existed until now and will no longer be comparable to previous years. Why? Because if this type of contract remained until now – barely 20,000 were signed in May of a year ago – its presence has multiplied by 13 and last month almost 265,000 were signed, half a million if added in April, when it came in . Reformation in full effect. And it is a fact that at some point they will stop working, but in this case they do not count as registered unemployed, although they are entitled to unemployment benefits if they have contributed for the necessary period. In this case, they appear as unemployed job seekers because they are not fully available to work, similar to what happens to those affected by an ERTE, who did not register on unemployment lists during the pandemic.
“We are going to see a break in the unemployment series and we will not be able to compare the data from before and after the reform,” said Valentín Bote, director of Randstad Research, who indicates that it is not “nothing irregular, but the way of measuring is different.” This is due to the fact that the vast majority of these half-million contracts replace temporary contracts, which would be considered unemployed if they became inactive.
Another fact that shows the strong growth of the discontinuous fixed figure after the application of the labor reform is derived from affiliation: last April there were more than 640,000 donors with such a contract, compared to 418,000 in 2019 and 346,000 in 2020.
Below you will find an answer to the main doubts that may exist regarding this type of contract.
-This type of contract, which is indefinite and therefore has no end date like the temporary, can be used to perform work of a seasonal nature or linked to seasonal productive activities, or for the development of those who do not like these nature, but, because they are of a temporary nature, have definite, definite or indefinite execution times. It can in turn also be engaged to provide services in the execution of commercial or administrative contracts which, insofar as foreseeable, form part of the normal activity of the company. Likewise, temporary employment agencies can enter into these types of contracts in such a way that the employee is an ETT employee for an indefinite period, but is constantly transferred to different companies.
-No, this modality existed long before Yolanda Díaz’s labor reform, but it has undergone certain changes to open it up to situations created before this rule with temporary or permanent part-time contracts. The government plans to channel all the temporariness there was into these kinds of contracts.
-Unlike temporary workers, who are compensated with 12 days per year worked at the time their contract ends, the termination of a permanent-continuous worker is similar to that of a permanent worker, which varies between 20 days per year and one maximum annuity or 33 days per year and a maximum of 24 months, depending on whether it is a relevant objective or a disciplinary objective. unfair. The seniority of these employees is calculated based on the time they have worked.
-The company must inform these people about the existence of regular permanent job vacancies and in addition they will be considered as a priority group for access to training initiatives for employment during their periods of inactivity.
-Yes, like any other employee, if he has contributed during the necessary period, he can collect unemployment benefits; however, they are not counted as registered unemployed but as unemployed job seekers as they are not fully available to work, as was the case with ERTE workers during the pandemic.
Source: La Verdad
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