Unemployment, the contributory unemployment benefit, is the great benefit of the Public State Employment Service (SEPE) and is intended for workers who have lost their job for various reasons. This help is conceived as a lifeline, but not as a resource to go to whenever you want. The objective at all government levels is to encourage job search, so it is not always possible to collect when a person stops working.
Given that the fundamental premise is to keep workers in the labor market, the collection of contributory unemployment benefit is not allowed for people who leave their job voluntarily… except in very few exceptions.
The key is to know which voluntary worker marches are included within the assumptions that are understood as a legal situation of unemployment, an essential criterion for the payment of unemployment. This will only take place when the departure of said worker takes place in circumstances that are unfavorable or detrimental to his company.
The SEPE states that there are up to three different cases in which the “decision of the worker to end the employment relationship” is considered a legal situation of unemployment:
-The substantial modification by the company of the employee’s working conditions. Here enter the schedule, the day, the shift work regime, the remuneration system and salary amount or the functions if they exceed functional mobility.
-The lack of payment or the continuous delay in the payment of the agreed salary, in addition to the rest of the employer’s breaches.
-The transfer of the workplace if this implies a change of residence for the worker.
In all these cases, despite the fact that the decision comes from the worker, it is considered to be involuntary and made forcibly due to changes in working conditions, non-payment or delays in payment of salary or transfer of the workplace, all of which are measures that harm said worker.
What will be the amount of unemployment
The money that you will receive as a contributory unemployment benefit will depend on the regulatory base, which is calculated by adding the average of the contribution bases of the previous 180 days for professional contingencies: it will be 70% of the regulatory base during the first 180 days of payment of the benefit and 50% of that regulatory base from day 181.
Unemployment can be collected up to a maximum of two years. The duration will depend in any case on the previous contribution for unemployment during the six years prior to the causal event. At least one year of contributions is needed to be entitled to unemployment (for four months of benefit) and from then on, longer periods of contribution give the right to longer collection periods.
The worker must also know that the SEPE contemplates unemployment amounts and minimums, so that their benefit, regardless of their contribution bases, must move between the following values:
-The minimum amount of unemployment is 540.41 euros per month for workers without children and 722.80 euros per month for workers with dependent children.
-The maximum amount of unemployment is 1,182.16 euros per month for workers without children, 1,351.04 euros per month for workers with a dependent child and 1,519.92 euros per month for workers with two or more children.
Requirements to collect unemployment
The SEPE what are the requirements that the person who wants to collect unemployment must meet in order to receive it. They are the following:
-Be registered or in an assimilated situation in the Social Security.
-Having contributed a minimum of 360 days as unemployment during the six years prior to requesting the benefit.
-Be registered as a job seeker () and sign the activity commitment with the SEPE.
-Not having the right to a contributory retirement pension.
-Not develop an activity, either self-employed or someone else’s, full-time.
-Do not collect a Social Security pension incompatible with work.
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