ATA rejects 200,000 multi-activity workers contributing for activity cessation when they will never be able to collect benefits
The government is waiting for the CEOE’s yes to finally reach the final agreement on the new premium system for the self-employed based on their real income after months and months of tough negotiations.
It is already the only organization still reluctant to approve the latest proposal sent to social agents on Monday afternoon. In this text, the Minister of Social Security, José Luis Escrivá, has succumbed to pressure from the trade unions – in particular from the CC OO – and further reduced the quota for the self-employed who earn the least until 2025, the minimum contribution is 200 euros, 30 euros less than the previous one. This latest transfer has already received the approval of UATAE, the association linked to the union led by Unai Sordo and the most critical in this latest stretch of the negotiations, which expressed support for the new plan early Tuesday morning.
Also from UPTA – the organization under UGT – they are satisfied with the last text that Escrivá sent. “It lives up to the expectations we set ourselves at UPTA ten months ago when these lengthy negotiations began,” said the chairman, Eduardo Abad, who said his organization says yes to “2.3 million self-employed who have significant savings between 400 and 1,200 euros per year in premiums, without losing any shred of social protection’.
However, the bells cannot be launched yet, as now ATA, the main association that is part of the employers’ association, believes that there are not yet sufficient conditions to give its support.
Lorenzo Amor, the chairman of the ATA, explained to this newspaper that there are still some margins pending. More specifically, he indicated that there are seven points of disagreement and stated that they were of “a certain magnitude”, although they have nothing. have to do with the quota they have to pay from 2023, which they agree with. The main stumbling block is that, according to the draft bill, 200,000 self-employed persons with multiple activities will have to contribute to stop the activity, despite the fact that they will never be able to collect this benefit.
Another point that separates them is that the employers deny that the period given to the self-employed to regularize their social security situation at the end of the year in the event that they contributed less than what they ultimately billed, is only one month, while the administration has five months to return the self-employed person who has paid more. Since the new premium system establishes 15 tranches in which each self-employed person must be inserted according to his income forecast, he can change up to six times a year, but at the end of the year they will have to regularize their situation and pay more if they have fallen short or send them back if they are too expensive.
In any case, the negotiations will continue without rest and with the ultimate aim of reaching closer positions and being able to submit the final proposal to the executive committee that the CEOE will hold for a vote early this Wednesday morning.
The new premium model reduces the quota to about 2.2 million self-employed with an income of less than 1,300 euros, while the premium for people with an income between 1,300 and 1,700 euros is frozen. On the other hand, nearly 800,000 self-employed, those who earn more than 1,700 euros, will see their quota gradually increase from next year to 590 euros in 2015 for those earning more than 6,000 euros per month, doubling the compensation they currently have. pay (290).
In addition, the government maintains the flat rate for the newly self-employed, for everyone without restrictions, but increases the compensation to 80 euros per month, as this newspaper has claimed. Likewise, it enhances activity cessation and establishes four different types of benefits.
Source: La Verdad
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