The government does not want to rush the expiration of the conditions of the employment regulation files (ERTE) that affect hundreds of thousands of companies and nearly three million workers and pressures employers to accept their latest offer. The Ministry of Labor has sent its proposal to the social agents, which consists of extending the income protection scheme and exoneration of contributions until September, a period that shortens the one requested by CEOE and Cepyme by three months, although a new one would not be ruled out extension.

The proposal maintains the penalty for undertaking layoffs in companies that have availed themselves of the protection system, qualifying the dismissal of workers as inappropriate and making the severance packages faced by businesses that cut their workforce considerably more expensive. The businessmen asked last Friday in Congress to relax these clauses.

Government, businessmen and unions are this afternoon negotiating the job proposal, which could reach the Council of Ministers tomorrow. In addition to the deadlines and clauses on layoffs, Labor and Social Security propose a substantial reduction in protection from July 1 for companies that maintain ERTE and for those that are joining the activity. The conditions agreed during the escalation of sanitary measures in March established a tax exemption of 75% for companies that until February of the year had more than 50 workers registered with Social Security and 100% for those with less than 50 workers.

Now, depending on the size of the workforce, exemptions from payments to Social Security by contributions will reach 60% in July to decrease to 50% in August and 40%, in September if it is a small SME of 50 workers. In the event that the company exceeds this limit, the exemptions would be 35%, in July, 25% in August and 15%, in September, according to the draft that has been forwarded to the social partners.

If the companies remain covered by the regulatory files, their obligations will be higher than those they will have if they return to the activity. In the case of SMEs with less than 50 employees, these payments will be reduced by 35%, in July, 25%, in August and 15%, in September, when this second extension would end. Larger companies will obtain a reduction of 20% in July of 10% in August and 5% in September.

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