The Bank of Spain considers that the usefulness shown by the income protection schemes for companies and workers in dealing with the crisis unleashed in March begins to weaken as the economic depression caused by the coronavirus continues. To date, with two extensions, the ERTEs have come to host 3.4 million jobs at its highest […]
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The airline sector warns: 80% of ERTE will be exhausted in a month and there are five million jobs threatened
The airline industry today asked governments for “continued financial support” To avoid the looming “job catastrophe” in the aviation industry: 4.8 million jobs are threatened by the fall in travel demand derived from the pandemic and 80% of salary replacement schemes (ERTEs) will be exhausted before the end of the year . The International Air […]
12,219 Basque hoteliers will receive aid from the Basque Government of between 3,000 and 4,000 euros for the forced closure
12,219 hospitality establishments in the Basque Country will receive aid of between 3,000 and 4,000 euros for the forced closure of their establishments decreed by the Basque Government, which came into force last Saturday, the 7th and will last throughout the month of November. The Basque Government today approved a new amount of aid, 30 […]
How and where to apply for the new unemployment benefit of 430 euros for the unemployed without benefits
The Government approved last Tuesday a new subsidy for those unemployed that during the first alarm state they will exhaust your unemployment benefit. According to the BOE, this aid is of “extraordinary nature” and tries to mitigate the effects of the pandemic. The unions criticize the measure, claiming that it is late and wrong, they […]
The Bank of Spain criticizes “the general increase” in salaries for civil servants while jobs are destroyed
The Governor of the Bank of Spain, Pablo Hernandez de Cos, has openly questioned the draft Government Budgets for 2021 for its lack of realism and for including measures that it considers erroneous, such as the generalized increase in salary for public employees in the midst of the crisis. The governor, who is himself a […]
From false to true self-employed: the ‘riders’ become independent of the platforms
The Supreme Court ruling condemning Glovo for having employed as false self-employed has given rise to the Government to open the debate on a future regulation of the so-called riders. The courts have ended up giving the reason to the distributors of digital platforms, who have taken the fight against their job insecurity to its […]
The self-employed ask to extend the ERTE and the aid for cessation of activity until May 31
The state of alarm decreed yesterday by the Government and the new measures to contain the wave of infections have led self-employed workers to request the extension of emergency financial aid until next May 31. The time restrictions imposed by the Government could be prolonged, according to President Pedro Sánchez yesterday, for six months, until […]
More than 40,000 workers in ERTE after the closure of restaurants and bars in Catalonia due to the coronavirus
The closure of bars and restaurants and restrictions on other businesses to combat the second wave of the Covid pandemic in Catalua has triggered again the Temporary Employment Regulation Files (ERTE), which, in just one week, rise to 4,871 and affect a total of 41,054 workers. According to the latest data from Department of […]
The increase in VAT will mean a drop in turnover of up to 370 million and the loss of up to 6,165 jobs
The increase in VAT from 10 to 21% to sugary and sweetened beverages planned by the Government will result in a direct drop in turnover of between 119 and 370 million euros per year, as a result of the decline in consumption and between 1,980 and 6,165 jobs will be lost throughout the agri-food chain. The impact […]
Moreno: “Andalusia generates trust above what the rest of the country does”
“Andalusia generates trust above what the rest of the country does”. The President of the Board on Tuesday made an exercise of faith in the community’s capacities to recover from the “cataclysm” of the pandemic against all forecasts and despite the fact that the dangerous evolution of the disease in recent weeks has forced […]