The domestic work sector is regulated by rules that are somewhat different from those of other workers, but what does not change is the obligation of employers to pay their domestic employees at least the Minimum Interprofessional Wage (SMI) or its part equivalent in days of less than full duration.
At the beginning of February and without the ‘yes’ of the employer, the Government and the unions agreed with retroactive effects as of January 1. This meant that domestic employees (like other workers) who at that time received the SMI or an amount of less than 1,000 euros per month had to have their salary updated.
In the case of home employment, these 1,000 euros per month can also translate into 33.33 euros per day or 7.82 euros gross per hour worked. Any employee or domestic employee below these amounts must benefit from updating her salary and the amounts in arrears.
Part of the efforts of the Labor Inspectorate have been aimed at regularizing the situation of these employees. In fact, at the beginning of the year it started a campaign for domestic employers urging them to update the wages of their workers.
How to update the salary of a domestic worker
As it is such an important matter, Social Security reminds it periodically through its official channels. For this reason, he has insisted on the need to update the salary of domestic employees to the SMI and has explained how this process can be carried out.
The fastest option is provided by Import@ss, from Social Security. In its section ‘Modification of labor data in home employment’, the employer can change the salary of his or her domestic employee and adjust it at least to the SMI. You can also change other aspects related to the type of working day, hours worked…
All the employer needs is to have a digital certificate (), electronic DNI, Cl@ve () or do the process via SMS, although in this case it must be in the Social Security database.
In the event that one of these access methods is not available, the employer still has another option to carry out the process. First you will have to fill in the form TA.2/S-0138 of ‘Request for registration, cancellation or change of data of the employee in the General Regime – Special System for domestic employees’, and that must contain all the Personal data and the employee’s data, as well as the reason for the communication, which will be to update the salary.
When the form is well filled out, the employer must download it to a computer and enter the Import@ss platform to use the ‘Send an application’ service, and without having to have a digital certificate or Cl@ve. Here you must attach the TA.2/S-0138 model and, in addition, indicate your DNI or NIE, an email address and a photograph to verify your identity.
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