The reduction of working hours and universal aid by parenting are, for the wing of adding the government, a “historical debt” of the State with families to stop social inequality. This has been defended on Wednesday by the Second Vice President of the Government and Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, and the Minister of Social Rights, Pablo Bustinduy, in an institutional act. Both have claimed the urgency of promoting these public policies that, they assure, will defend in the negotiation of the next budgets State General.
The two initiatives are promises subscribed by two departments at the beginning of the legislature, but none has yet been implemented by the reluctance of the PSOE. Hence, Díaz and Bustinduy have put on the table the need for Reduce the working day to 37.5 hours and implement a universal benefit for raising 200 euros per month per child. “It is not only a debt of resources, but also of time to dedicate to parenting, to care, to rest, to freedom and live better,” Bustinduy stressed in his opening speech to the act ‘right to well -being, the right to Time: Universal provision for parenting and reduction of working hours’, held at the headquarters of your ministry.
For the holder of Social Rights, the two reforms are also “the economically more sensible option”, as stated economic”. “It is not true that social protection is a luxury for quiet times”has stressed, before remembering that in Spain one in three children live in poverty, whose cost is 5% of GDP a year. “And that is what we are going to defend in the budgets,” he has settled.
Díaz has also defended the benefit by son in charge, an aid that, has sentenced, must be universal to eradicate a “failed model”: “Social compensation mechanisms only work when so. I match Amancio Ortega’s daughter when I go to the same public school o The same public health. “This and the reduction of the working day represent, in the words of the second vice president,” the great seasonal commitment. “The reduction of day to 37.5 hours is also one of the star measures of the department of Díaz, which plans to approve in the Council of Ministers next Tuesday, February 4. of Junts.
Since the work agreed with the unions last year, Díaz and the Minister of Economy, Carlos Corpora have had the occasional encounter, especially for the entry into force of the reform, although they finally reached an agreement two weeks ago to Approve the full text initially agreed. Even so, the minister has loaded against the socialist wing of the Government, whom she has accused of making a “rhetorical defense” of this type of rights, but then stating “Implicit and explicit rejections” in negotiations. “I worry that progressive forces are afraid,” he said.
Reduce extreme poverty by 43%
The event also took place a round table in which the researcher specialized in the evaluation of social and economic policies Lucía Gorjón, journalists Ángeles Caballero and Miguel Muñoz, and the doctor in Sociology Irene Lebrusán has intervened.
Gorjón has broken down some of the data obtained in a study prepared by the Iseak Research Center, and which calculated that a 200 euros benefit per children per month would reduce the extreme rate of child poverty by 43%. Said in another way: Spain would have 14% of children in extreme poverty at 8% If this benefit was promoted that, according to the researcher, would involve about 19,000 million euros a year – a tenth part of the pension expenditure – to the public coffers of the State.
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