The deadline to approve a new extension of the ERTE with the support of unions and employers is closing ever more and will be approved with a margin of days before the current scheme expires next Tuesday, which is still hosted by nearly two million workers and hundreds of thousands of companies.

Without an extension, all those people and businesses would suffer great difficulties not to go unemployed or, in the case of companies, disappear. For this reason, the extension is certain, but not so much the support of employers and unions.

The ministries of Labor and Social Security had called unions and employers to a meeting this morning in order to finish ending the differences that separate them and announce the agreement, which must be approved by a Council of Ministers before next Tuesday. But it has not worked. Only CCOO had indicated that the final proposal of last Monday had its approval. For the rest, the employers CEOE, Cepyme and the UGT union had to be modified. Today's meeting ended with a new proposal from the Government to which employers and unions have not responded at the time, calling for a new appointment tomorrow.

Sources present in the social dialogue have indicated that the differences that prevent the agreement are more economic than legal . In the third month of validity of the protection schemes and with the health alert already overcome, the enormous costs of a new three-month extension, until September, become more apparent.

Whoever has been in charge of underlining it has been José Luis Escrivá, Minister of Social Security and declared defender of efficiency in the use of public resources, specifically the incentive model by which companies that leave ERTE have greater benefits in terms of price reductions than those that remain.

Escrivá, who on more than one occasion has indicated that this "novel" system is watched with attention by many countries, has nonetheless encountered criticism and resistance at the table of social dialogue. Companies and unions argue that a company that decides to stay in ERTE does so because of the aid it receives and they affirm that it does so because their situation with the incentives offered would be risky.

In today's session, the social partners have ended up leaving with a proposal for access conditions to the exemption scheme that more than one has described as "complex" . As the aid scheme is dismantled, which in the first three months has transferred wages and contributions to the public sector, the agreements are more difficult for everyone. Also for Social Security, which to the income that it ceases to receive from the reductions in contributions to companies and the self-employed adds the payment of aid such as those that it has to make tomorrow to the beneficiaries of the minimum vital income and, above all, pensions , that this month they come with extra pay. For this reason, last May, the Government opened a credit line of 30,500 million to Social Security.

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