This is the new ERTE avalanche that collapses the SEPE: 150,000 more only in the last two weeks

Officials from the State Public Employment Service (SEPE), the body that processes unemployment benefits and those affected by temporary employment regulation files (ERTE) have been overcome by the avalanche of ERTE presented in the last two weeks and request reinforcements from the Ministry of Labor The CSIF union today issued a statement in which they indicate that since the end of October

.000,

in response to the administrative measures launched by the administrations to stop the second wave of infections.

The files presented would affect 750,000 workers, which would be the

Specifically, the union demands "the immediate publication of an extraordinary Public Employment Offer for the SEPE and a sufficient endowment of human, structural and professional resources before the

and economic and labor market forecasts. "Since the first state of alarm was declared last March, the SEPE has been an organization

for causes related to the coronavirus.

The first avalanche of benefits reached 3.4 million workers, it took months to be absorbed by the agency belonging to Labor and led to the delay in the payment of benefits and emergency support offered by other government agencies. ordinary services provided by the body, such as unemployment and subsidies for those who have already lost the right to collect unemployment, are added others deployed by the Government to face the crisis, such as ERTE or the

during the first alarm state.

The volume of work is higher than the processing capacity of the 8,000 officials of the agency, according to CSIF and "is aggravating the situation of oversaturation of the workforce and affects the delay in the payment of benefits" that affect

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