The government, businessmen and unions began yesterday to discuss the measures with which the economy will begin to stand up after three weeks since the decree of the state of alarm that began last March 14 the hibernation of the economy.

The last sectors declared non-essential by the Government, such as industry or construction , were paralyzed last week to help stop the coronavirus pandemic. Until that time, according to data from the Ministry of Labor, 900,000 jobs had been destroyed and the Temporary Employment Regulation Files (ERTE) affected more than 600,000 people , that is, the social protection measure had served more than one of every three workers affected by the paralysis of the economy.

The Government remains silent on the public cost of the measures deployed to prevent the bankruptcy of hundreds of thousands of companies and the lack of protection of the millions of workers who cannot go to carry out their tasks for complying with the confinement order decreed last month. March. For the former, it has set up liquidity guarantees and facilities , in addition to suspending its obligations with Social Security as long as its workers are not fired. Today the new line of loans guaranteed by the Official Credit Institute (ICO) has entered into force and the social agents have asked to monitor the way in which this financing is granted so that, beyond exhausting the available capital, it is distributed prioritizing the most needy companies.

For workers, the Government has decreed their automatic passage to the register of unemployment benefits for which they will have the right to collect up to 70% of their salary, which will be paid by the Public State Employment Service (SEPE) . All the financing of this plan is pending the aid that the member countries of the European Union end up agreeing on.

The meetings held in recent weeks around the sin with a large representation of the Government. Nadia Calviño , Vice President and Minister of Economy, are joined by the Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz ; the Minister of Industry, Reyes Maroto , who is in charge of supplying the risk prevention materials that will be necessary in the economic recovery; the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, José Luis Escrivá ; the Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera ; the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas .

The Executive and the representatives of CEOE, Cepyme, UGT and CCOO have agreed to continue working in the so-called de-escalation phase of the containment measures and to study how the activity can be resumed taking into account the particularities of each sector, once the Week ends Santa

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez , already advanced last Saturday that the stoppage of non-essential activities will not be extended beyond the period for which it was decreed, which concludes this Holy Thursday, April 9, so that these activities may resume after the holidays of Easter. CCOO and UGT requested that this return to activity be carried out with all the guarantees of protection for workers, for which a more leading role is being claimed by Industry

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