The most representative unions in Spain, CC OO and UGT, reached this Monday a principle of agreement with the Ministry of Social Security to correct the plan to purchase the quote for past internship periods. The new text extends the time to be able to pay these contributions, which goes from five years to seven; widens the window for signing the special agreement from three and a half to four and a half years; and takes as a reference the year in which the internship was completed (which greatly reduces the original price, which was around 290 euros per month). The Confederation of Scientific Societies of Spain (COSCE), in a statement issued this Tuesday, applauds these changes, but insists on two aspects that do not convince it: it asks for a greater discount on fees and that more years can be recovered. “We want to ask the Government to keep the dialogue open with the affected groups until this situation is completely resolved,” says the statement from the association, which brings together 88 scientific societies that represent more than 40,000 professionals.
The agreement between the power plants and the Executive is insufficient for scientists. “It does not correct all the issues that, in our opinion, are not appropriate in the approved ministerial order,” the statement says. The COSCE details two of the “most important” issues that are not resolved, “the obligation that the affected people must also pay the employer’s part of the contribution and that they cannot recover for more than five or seven years because some of the people affected worked with scholarships for which they did not contribute for much longer periods of time.”
In normal circumstances, the business part of the contributions is the highest, 23.6% of the regulatory base (similar to the gross annual salary) for common contingencies, while the worker pays another 4.7%. The scientists ask that Social Security pay the part of the company (which in their case are usually public administrations) and that they take care of that of the employee. However, special agreements (such as the one articulated for this listing purchase) work in another way: since it is a purchase a posterioriSocial Security does not differentiate by concepts.
In the statement, the COSCE celebrates a good part of the agreement between unions and the Government: “We congratulate the ministry for the decision to rectify some of the most harmful aspects incorporated in the ministerial order published in the BOE. Specifically, we consider the rectification to be a success in that the new order takes as the basis for the contribution of the special agreement the minimum base corresponding to the year in which the activity was carried out and not the current one as established by the approved ministerial order.” This measure is the one that reduces the cost the most, from around 290 euros to around 100 in some cases, depending on the year in which the studies were completed.
“We also consider it appropriate that the affected people who, thanks to the 2011 regulation, saved two years then can now add another five to that period. The decision to extend the period of membership in the agreement to four and a half years also seems to be an improvement, as well as the extension of the possibility of splitting the payment up to double the redeemed period,” the scientists added in their statement.
UGT and CC OO announced their approval of the Government’s new proposal through a joint statement this Monday, after a meeting at the ministry. The limited amount of time that exists for the ministerial order containing the now reformed text to come into force – it will do so next Saturday, June 1 – prevents these corrections from coming in on time. For this reason, both unions, waiting to receive the final proposal from the Ministry, and given the limited time available, recommend that the affected people “whenever possible” wait to request the signing of the special agreement “until the processing of the new regulation is formalized.”
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