The Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, has signed with the leaders of CCOO, UGT, CEOE and Cepyme, Ignacio Fernández Toxo, Cándido Méndez, Juan Rosell and Antonio Garamendi, respectively, the agreement on the new helps long-term unemployed.
The event was held at the Palacio de la Moncloa just eleven days after their meeting the parties, with the participation of the Minister for Employment, Fatima Banez to give a boost to the activation program for long-term unemployed, which is part of this assistance.
The president, in the act, he wanted to clarify his words last week and, after reiterating that ” in many respects the crisis is past history “, admitted that” are not history its aftermath “. “The recovery will not be complete until it reaches every Spanish has no job and not sitting in the pockets of all Spaniards,” he said, to admit that “the recovery has not reached all and all for re Like “. What is the help? This new feature is 426 euros per month for six months and she can access the long-term unemployed (more than a year in unemployment) have exhausted all benefits, no income and have family responsibilities.
The aid will cost between 1,000 and 1,200 million euros, raise the coverage rate of unemployment protection between seven and eight points to stand at 65% in mid-2015 and will benefit 400,000 to 450,000 unemployed.
While receiving training activities and orientation, long-term unemployed who meet certain requirements charged aid, although the goal end is that the job market again. So this aid is incardinated in a broader program for labor activation of this group.
The beneficiaries will sign an agreement, and the public employment service has one month to design personal work schedule based their qualifications. They will have a tutor / counselor and the public employment service will be in charge of them get any jobs. Compatible with employment The aid will be compatible with a job as an employee. The salary to be charged for that job aid is deducted, so that the labor cost will be jointly funded by the company and the public employment service.
The possible beneficiaries of this program are long-term unemployed they worked for someone else at some point, they are registered as jobseekers to December 1 this year, they have been receiving benefits for at least six months before applying for aid including Prodi, prepares and Income Active Insertion (RAI), with family responsibilities, no other income and no longer receive benefits at least six months before applying for aid.
This program must be approved by the Cabinet for its entry into force on 15 January 2015 for a period of 15 months (until April 15, 2016), although three months before the end of the effects it has had and its possible extension will be evaluated. More needs After the signing, in the Moncloa Palace between government and social partners, Toxo and Mendez have insisted assess the pact but have also demanded more, such as increase the minimum wage.
“After years of drought is now that the rain is valued,” said Fernandez Toxo, who has requested a minimum income to ensure the survival of thousands of people without find employment. He also claimed that the agreement collective bargaining contemplates a renewed role of wages.
Fernández Toxo has insisted that the agreement “is not a help but it is. Basically it is an agreement to facilitate conditions of access to employment for those who are faring worse “, up to 450,000 people.
Also the president of CEOE, Juan Rosell, has been in line with the unions and advocated for making” more and better “what is being done to date.
Rosell has reviewed the agreement and has framed the situation of emergency in Spain.
” The social emergency must have appropriate policy response, “said Rosell, and that is what is being done now.
Rosell said that one thing is the good intentions and other things that can be done from the point of view budget, in families, in business and in all administrations.
For his part, President of Cepyme, Antonio Garamendi, has asked that the agreement is not interpreted as a simple reversionary annuity, but as an incentive for recovering the illusion.
Garamendi praised the agreement as an example of coordination of administrations.
In his closing speech, the Prime Minister also stressed the “priceless” participation of the autonomous communities in developing the plan, given their responsibility for active employment policies.
Rajoy has said be aware that “the recovery has not reached everyone, nor all alike “and has assessed that the approved program seek effective integration,” no aid which only serve to alleviate personal situations of extreme hardship. “
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