The decision to extend the

temporary employment files until the end of May

is understandable considering the current vulnerability of the

755,000 affected workers

.

The new term would thus come to coincide with the duration of the state of alarm, a situation which is otherwise so undesirably exceptional in the parliamentary and economic aspects.

The agreement between the Government and social agents wants to push the protection network charged to the public coffers a few more months, but not

we can close our eyes to

patch that this measurement means

.

Because the worst thing is not the added cost in a year in which

Spain has reached the largest debt issue in its history

.

The worst thing is that this expense does not finally serve to save workers from unemployment due to the unfeasibility of the companies in which they carried out their work.

We are facing a kick to follow, an onerous shift of the problem forward.

It is useless to subsidize the worker if the employer is not helped.

The bosses have been lamenting the government's blindness on this point for months.

The claims of employers to eliminate obstacles to dismissal are not being addressed: they need not to be forced to return the exonerations if they dismiss before six months.

Otherwise, your companies could be seriously compromised to continue with their activity.

Negotiations will continue on Monday, but given the sectarianism that emerged in the continuous disputes between

Yolanda Diaz

and

Nadia calviño

, everything indicates that the demands of the employer will be neglected.Our work model is suffering from a

chronic duality

and structural weaknesses that analysts have amply diagnosed, but whose reform politicians - least of all a cabinet as weighed down by ideology as this coalition - do not want to address.

The expansion of subsidies is bread for today and hunger for tomorrow until complementary measures are taken

.

The paradigmatic case is that of aid to the hotel industry, which in Spain is conspicuous by its absence and in other European countries with less dependence on tourism they reach very notable figures.

Nobody understands that the Government of Sánchez e Iglesias refuses to help the establishments on which one in three workers who are currently in an ERTE depend

, unless they have assumed the doctrine

Waiter

according to which the hotel industry "lacks added value" and therefore it is possible to proceed to its elimination by pure economic Darwinism.

Not even that cartoonish neoliberalism that they invoke so much to justify their outdated recipes would do better. Only the Bank of Spain dares to tell the crude truth, warning from the horizon more than credible that

ERTEs become permanent dismissals as soon as the benefit period is exhausted

.

In 2020 unemployment has shot up 23%.

Without a reformist strategy that avoids the patches, invests public money well and tackles the problem in depth, Spain is guaranteed the sad European leadership in unemployment, deficit and debt.

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