The third vice president and minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, announced this Thursday that the temporary employment regulation files (ERTE) will continue as of May 31 “in a formula similar to the current one.” This has been pointed out by the head of Labor at the closing of the VII Cepyme Awards, where she has pointed out that “soon” the negotiation will be opened within the tripartite commission.
“The employees of SMEs have been the main beneficiaries of the ERTE, a mechanism that has proven its usefulness and that must continue to exercise its protection,” Díaz added.
The minister highlighted that one of the great achievements of the ERTE has been that small and medium-sized companies and the self-employed have been able to take advantage, for the first time, “of this employment and company protection system, democratizing a mechanism that until now it had been reserved for large companies”.
Díaz has valued the response put in place by the Government to deal with the pandemic, “which has made it possible to vary the usual behavior in the face of the crisis.” “While in the previous financial crisis 402,203 freelancers had to close their businesses, today not only has self-employment been maintained, but it has increased by 19,604 people”, he remarked.
“But you are much more than the preponderant business fabric”, highlighted the vice president, who stated that SMEs are committed to quality, employment, internationalization, innovation, inclusion or sustainability”.
The value of SMEs
According to Díaz, SMEs represent “a philosophy of improvement, responsibility and solidarity that undoubtedly contributes to the improvement of the Spanish social ecosystem”. Thus, he has taken the opportunity to thank his companies for their work of “stimulus and resistance, despite the restrictions and the bad times.” “Thank you for believing that it could be done and that it was worth doing,” she said.
The vice president has transferred to the companies that she has them “very present” in the strategies for the recovery and transformation of the country after the health crisis, but also in the new Spanish strategy of active support for employment, “which deploys active allied policies of companies, with specific services for SMEs, geared towards their needs in terms of employment, training and improving productivity and productive transformation”.
“We are going to accompany the recovery with better working conditions and we are going to go hand in hand, do not doubt it, with small and medium-sized companies,” according to Díaz.
For her part, the Second Vice President and Minister of Economic Affairs, Nadia Calviño, has pointed out this week that in the new extension of the ERTE -where some 750,000 workers continue- the parameters should be “adjusted” to “stimulate reactivation”, that is to say return to a scheme that rewards companies more for the workers they reinstate from an ERTE.
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