CEOE calls for immediate actions to complete the pacts on ERTE and "guarantee the survival of companies"

The companies grouped into CEOE have not waited two hours since the signing of the agreement to extend until June their social agreement with the Government and unions on the temporary employment regulation files (ERTE) to request immediate actions with which to "complete" the closed agreements. The last friday.

The two employers, CEOE and Cepyme, have urged the Government to meet again, "as soon as possible", to address "without delay" the necessary and specific measures that the most affected sectors will require so that "the coverage of the agreement today signed be complete. "

The biggest problem that business organizations faced last Friday was the job safeguard clause by which companies that use ERTE by force majeure assume the commitment not to make layoffs within six months. Many employers believe that this clause, which makes layoffs more expensive as they are deemed inadmissible, means that they will be required to keep their March staff for six months, even if the business with which they start operating is much lower. For this reason, the approval of the agreements last Friday lasted several hours more than expected in business organizations.

Sources of the social agents consider that the pact signed on Friday has not been able to be modified, although they point to the possibility that the principles it establishes may establish details more favorable to entrepreneurs once they are translated into the legal text that must be approved tomorrow. in the Council of Ministers. Sources from the Ministry of Labor do not clarify this option.

The mechanism by which the agreements will be applied is a tripartite commission between Labor, Social Security, unions and employers that could start meeting this Wednesday. In it, the situation of different sectors will be analyzed to adopt measures that can help their companies to reactivate their businesses and scale them from the point where they restart while the de-escalation of restrictions for sanitary reasons progresses.

CEOE and Cepyme have valued "once again" the agreement signed "fruit of social dialogue". "It is especially relevant the fact that a new negotiation process is opened in this way to extend support to the companies and workers most affected," they added.

Both employers have pointed out that the recovery process will be "slow, more than the de-escalation itself", for which reason they have insisted on the need to find new ways to guarantee the survival of the hardest hit sectors, their companies and their staff until the full recovery of their activity.

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