Young people without training, unemployed people over 45 years of age and women, the groups benefiting from the new employment incentives

• Four out of ten young people who went unemployed in 2022 in the EU are Spanish

The Government has modified the

with which it rewards companies that hire certain types of groups.

On the one hand, it has put an end to many reductions that have proven ineffective in promoting the employment of these people and, on the other, it has approved

designed to help especially

the

and

.

The reform, approved this Tuesday in the Council of Ministers, complies with

committed to Brussels in Component 23 of

, in which the Government has already advanced to the European Commission that it would end all the bonuses that have not resulted useful in promoting employment.

To date, there was not a single standard in Spain that included all the regulations on incentives for contracting, but rather these were scattered in different laws.

The Government

.

The main novelty is that

that now benefit from any type of hiring incentive will have the

and that these incentives will only reward

"Before we had a bonus that rewarded the transformation into permanent contracts, but

and it will disappear. We will not reward temporary contracts to take it to permanent contracts, there will not be any bonus of this type except one in the sector agriculture", explained

, Second Vice President and Minister of Labor at a press conference after the Council of Ministers.

The minister explained that hiring incentives were previously understood as

but from now on they must be understood as an instrument to

of groups that have enormous difficulties finding work.

have been created

: one to encourage the hiring of

and that will provide companies that hire them

for three years;

another of

per month for three years for

that hire permanent workers or partners;

and one more, for

that transform temporary contract workers into discontinuous permanent ones.

This last bonus discriminates by gender: if the worker who becomes permanent is

, the company will take

per month;

while if he is

he will take

All these incentives will be reduced in the event that the contracts are

although the maximum reduction allowed to qualify for the bonus will be 50% of the full-time working day, unless it is a case allowed to reconcile.

The Executive has decided that the

will also be discounted in three cases: those who have left the company due to permanent or absolute

as long as they do not have the recognized right to reinstatement, who are over 55 years of age and have permanent disability and are reincorporate in another category, or who are over 55 years of age and recover their capacity.

Changes to Existing Incentives

In addition to approving these three new incentives, the Government has modified others that were already operational, such as those that sought to encourage the indefinite hiring

- that is, those workers who have been looking for work for more than a year.

If before this bonus was for those over 50 years of age, now the Government will grant it to everyone over

of age and, in this case, it is also discriminated by gender: the company will take

if the employee is a

and

euros if it is a

.

The bonus for hiring

which goes from 55 to

per month, both for men and women.

With respect

from now on it will have

instead of percentages, equivalent to those that would result from applying

provided for this contract and 100% depending on the size of the company;

while the bonuses for the transformation of training contracts into indefinite ones are increased by 200% to equal those of the transformations of alternating training contracts.

From now on,

will also be able to benefit from these last two bonuses.

Another change affects the bonuses for companies that hire

, since from now on

.

The incentive will last for the duration of the substitution.

remain unchanged

, a group that initially complained about the possibility that their bonuses would be eliminated;

victims of

or victims of sexual violence.

The new rule will enter into force in

and establishes that

: if they work they will be maintained and, if they are not effective, they will be withdrawn.

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