Yolanda Díaz designs a mess of aid for reducing working hours: some exist and others are incompatible

The final offer of the Ministry of Labor for the reduction of the working day, with which it would aim to mitigate the economic impact among the already battered small businesses, is plagued by conditions and incompatibilities that reduce its scope and that will make it difficult to reverse the organizations’ refusal. business to the proposal of the department headed by second vice president Yolanda Díaz. The Government has issued an ultimatum to CEOE and Cepyme that expires on November 11 after offering new compensation, with which it seeks to attract the employers to the agreement that it has closed with the unions, and which consists of a line of direct aid from up to 6,000 euros for companies with less than five workers dedicated to the agricultural, commerce, hospitality, cleaning and hairdressing sectors.Related News standard Yes Labor requires that workers be kept for three years with a subsidized contract for reduced working hours Gonzalo D. Velarde standard Yes Yolanda Díaz’s plan to reduce working hours only allows Gonzalo D. Velarde companies to concentrate 180 hours per year. However, the scope of these new aid is limited, once Labor’s approach has been analyzed. To begin with, these direct aid would represent an extension of the ‘digital kit’ that the Ministry of Economy already offers and that is financed with European funds, since it is proposed as support aimed at the digitalization of smaller businesses. In addition, the new aid announced overlaps with the already existing ‘digital kit’, as can be seen from the document with the basic lines on the measure offered to social agents to which ABC has had access. They are also incompatible with the digitalization plan that has been in force for two and a half years.Overlap of the programsOn the one hand, Labor proposes the implementation of a new aid program for the digitalization of small businesses under the name of ‘ 5’ digital kit. It would be a line of up to 6,000 euros for companies in the aforementioned sectors. But if any of them have already received aid from the original ‘digital kit’ – which provides amounts of up to 3,000 euros for companies with up to two workers and up to 6,000 euros for up to ten employees – they will only be able to request the new line offered by Work to achieve the figure of 6,000 euros if it is a company with up to two workers (a maximum of 3,000 euros if it has already been a beneficiary of the original ‘digital kit’ for its segment) and if it has between 3 and 10 workers and has taken the help of 6,000 euros of European funds will only be eligible for the Work ‘kit’ to incorporate the digital time record, which will be mandatory and with remote access by the Inspection. For this leg of the aid, Díaz’s department estimates a disbursement of 187.5 million euros. The other leg of the aid package with a financial allocation of a similar amount would be a ‘consulting kit 5’ for the contracting of advisory services in digitalization for companies with less than five workers in the range of sectors that are the subject of direct aid. In this case, the measure extends to the ‘kit consulting’ financed with European funds that can be requested for businesses with between 10 and 250 workers. At this point, the document transferred by Labor with the general lines of the aid package clarifies that companies must choose between one of the two new ‘kits’ proposed, being incompatible with each other. Furthermore, it clarifies that “the receipt of this aid will be conditional on maintaining the level and quality of existing employment in the companies for three years.” Finally, the proposal includes the conclusion of an agreement with the associations representing small and medium-sized businesses and the self-employed to create a digital platform so that companies can share good management practices and can access courses for this objective. Little compensation «We ask actively and passively that the parties sit down to negotiate with the numbers clear from the beginning. And that the extra cost that the measure will entail is passed on to all actors. Now the Government is stepping down with a measure whose total cost rises to, according to its figures, 375 million and with a scope of 470,000 businesses with less than five workers,” says the president of the Administrative Managers, Fernando Jesús Santiago Ollero, after meeting you. the proposal. It should be remembered that the Administrative Managers calculate that the measure of reducing the working day from 40 to 37.5 hours a week would lead to an increase in labor costs of a minimum of 15,000 million euros annually for the productive fabric. MORE INFORMATION The self-employed with employees in charge fall to the lowest level of the last eight years, scared by the increase in contributions. Business sources consulted by ABC point out precisely this circumstance, that it is “minimal financial aid that does not compensate for the high structural costs” that entail the reduction of working hours. Furthermore, they point out that this latest job offer means admitting, on the one hand, the compromise of the productivity of companies that the measure entails and how this can affect precisely the smallest businesses with less room for maneuver for which the incorporation of the Cutting hours and assuming the associated costs could be the final straw for many of them already in a delicate financial situation.

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