Within the group of freelancers, it is very common to find cases of family businesses. Companies that feed their workforce with children, siblings and other related people. However, the question that many self-employed workers ask is: “how should I hire a family member?”
In reality, the type of hiring will be determined by the employee’s family relationship, as well as the requirements of their situation for them to fit into the RETA or the General Regime.
What is a freelance collaborator?
The collaborating freelancer is quite special to the system. He is a worker who enjoys a peculiarity, since for Social Security he is a self-employed worker and for the Tax Agency he is a worker for someone else. However, he is a very interesting figure when it comes to hiring a family member. These are the requirements:
Requirements to be self-employed
– Family relationship: you must be a spouse, descendant, ascendant or any other type of relationship with the self-employed employer, up to the second degree of consanguinity.
– Habituality: it cannot be a punctual collaboration; on the contrary, it must imply continuity in the job.
– Share work center.
– The family member must reside at the same address as the self-employed person and be in charge of them.
– Not be registered as an employee.
– Be unemployed and registered with the employment office.
– Be at least 16 years old.
Bonuses for hiring a freelance collaborator
This type of hiring is designed for people dependent on the self-employed, so it is understood that all the benefits of the business will go to the family unit. In other words, there will be no specific remuneration for the self-employed collaborator.
Precisely for this reason, the bonuses are not intended for the hiring of the worker, but for the self-employed collaborator himself; as long as he had not been registered with the RETA in the five immediately preceding years:
– Discount of 50% of the self-employed quota during the 18 months after registration.
– Bonus of 25% from month 19 to 24.
Procedures to hire a freelance collaborator
It is enough for the contracted person to register with Social Security as a collaborating family member. It is not necessary for him to register with the Treasury.
Hiring a child for someone else
In cases where the family member is the son of the self-employed person, you can also opt for hiring someone else. The only requirements to hire a person in this way is that the child is under 30 years of age and that there has not been any unfair dismissal in the previous 12 months. In addition to maintaining the contract six months after the bonus period.
However, children over 30 years of age with special difficulties for labor insertion also fall within this assumption: people with a degree of intellectual disability equal to or greater than 33% or with a degree of physical or sensory disability equal to or greater than 65 %.
It must be remembered that, in these cases, the contribution in the general regime may not include unemployment coverage, although it will have a bonus of 100% of the business contribution for common contingencies for twelve months in the event of permanent hiring.
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