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  • Coronavirus. The government is awarded the budget for active autonomous employment policies to pay unemployment benefits for the coronavirus

The decision of the Government to be awarded by surprise the training funds of the active employment policies to pay the unemployment aid that it has compromised in its crash plan against the coronavirus has sat badly in the autonomous governments, which precisely meet today with the Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz. at the Sector Conference on Employment and Labor Affairs.

The speed and lack of consensus with which the Government takes measures now add to the political unrest, the regional unrest. The funds for training come from the contributions of 0.7% made by salaried workers on their payrolls and the 2020 budget amounts to 2,414 million euros . Andalusia, which uses 430 million euros of these funds, has pointed out that this is an improvised measure and has expressed its disagreement when indicating that the Government had alternatives that did not mean cutting active autonomous employment policies.

The Government did not comment yesterday on this decision, which came accompanied by the extension of the aid plan for temporary workers and domestic workers and on the eve of its meeting with the regional governments to discuss active employment policies.

The decree approved yesterday redirects the purpose of the contributions on payrolls to reinforce the payment of unemployment benefits made by the Ministry of Labor through the State Public Employment Service (SEPE), an agency that has a budget of 22,000 million euros and that it will channel promised aid to the nearly two million people who could be affected by the hibernation of the economy.

Thus, the financing of the autonomous initiatives of their own employment policies must now be rethought, according to the Andalusian Government . The Andalusian Government has highlighted that the measure compromises "the reactivation after many years of Vocational Training for Employment", an initiative for which it has already tendered 41 million euros.

Not only Andalusia is upset by the Government's initiative, several autonomous governments have signed a letter addressed to Díaz in which they express their disappointment and disagreement with this measure, which is taken in an improvised manner and without attending to proposals that have even been moved by written".

In the opinion of the Andalusian Government, there are alternatives to finance the new protection measures different from that used by the National Executive, without eliminating the possibility of the autonomous communities to fulfill their competence to develop active policies to maintain employment. The regulatory change "would severely limit the possibility of collaborating to recover normality in the shortest possible time."

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