Discontinuous permanent workers have a special labor relationship with their employers, since due to the nature of their contract, which links them to seasonal or temporary activities, their work is periodically interrupted. When that happens, where do they stand on unemployment benefits?
The State Public Employment Service (SEPE) regulates the access of these discontinuous permanent workers to unemployment benefits such as subsidies or unemployment, the contributory unemployment benefit.
The agency has reported that these workers can receive an unemployment benefit in the periods of inactivity between the campaigns of discontinuous permanent contracts, explicitly “when they do not work”.
According to the SEPE, if the worker receives a benefit due to his nature as a discontinuous permanent worker, he may receive it until the moment he resumes that activity. If he does it specifically to carry out a part-time job, he will not be able to make the payment of the benefit compatible with this job.
At the time of returning to work, the citizen who receives any of these benefits while being a permanent discontinuous worker will have to proceed to the suspension of the benefit (to later collect it again at the point where it had left it, provided that he has the right to it) or directly to its extinction.
The novelties in the subsidy for people over 52 years of age
The case of the subsidy for people over 52 years of age and its relationship with discontinuous permanent workers deserves special attention. Until this month of March, these citizens could not receive this SEPE subsidy, but access under the same conditions to this subsidy, a measure that was already included in the .
For this reason, and despite the previous regulations, provided that the causal event (that is, the cessation of work) takes place after March 2, 2022, permanent discontinuous workers can collect the subsidy for those over 52 years of age, which can be perceived until the fulfillment of the .
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