Generalitat Valenciana, employers and unions anticipate a flood of ERTE subsequent week | Economy | EUROtoday

The historic dana of final October 29 has not solely left a human drama, with at the least 215 deaths confirmed to this point in Valencia, but in addition an financial drama with 1000’s of firms destroyed or partially affected on which some 400,000 staff rely. Despite the truth that the presentation of each short-term and termination employment regulation recordsdata (that’s, ERTE and ERE, respectively) has begun slowly, with some 284 recordsdata affecting solely 3,014 staff as of Friday, the Generalitat Valenciana expects a flood of functions subsequent week, as confirmed to this newspaper by the employment secretary of the regional authorities, Antonio Galvañ.

“The logical thing is that next week the large volume of files will arrive,” mentioned Galvañ, who estimates that the overwhelming majority might be ERTE, as till now. The motive, he explains, “is that the ERTE, if applicable, can later be transformed into an ERE.” Both unions and employers agree with Galvañ in his forecast, particularly after the foreseeable approval of the labor defend within the Council of Ministers on Monday, the star measure promised by the second vp and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, to avoid wasting jobs and the economic material of the realm that represents 22% of the GDP of the Valencian Community. “Everyone waits like air to breathe a unprecedented customary. The affect may be very brutal, we are going to solely see the true dimension when this customary is handed to the BOE [Boletín Oficial del Estado]”says Daniel Patiño, secretary of union action of the Workers’ Commissions (CC OO) in the Valencian Community.

For its part, employers are very angry with Labor for not counting on them to create this labor shield that includes measures such as the annulment of dismissal or paid leave for those who are absent from work. This second point generates “a lot of concern,” says Salvador Navarro Pradas, president of the Valencian Confederation of Entrepreneurs, especially because the range of cases to benefit from this permit is wide and not limited to the territory. That is to say, as can be seen from Díaz’s words and in the absence of knowing the specification of the rule in the BOE, a worker in Barcelona could, for example, miss his job for the time he considers appropriate due to having a family member. in some affected area and having to go to help.

Among the reasons to justify their absence, workers may cite cleaning tasks, searching for family members, transportation or mobility problems, lack of connectivity and care for ascendants, descendants or other emotional ties. “It will be a small percentage, but as always there will be people who will want to exceed when using this permit. It is the point that worries us the most,” says Navarro, who asks that “demagogic” messages not be sent, since both employers and workers agree from the beginning that “personal safety comes first.” “We are all in this together and we are concerned that the ministry only considers one point of view and not the other,” he adds.

Díaz has also cited, among the possible causes of absence, the physical or emotional damage suffered by the affected workers, but in these cases they must choose to request the new sick leave due to temporary disability due to the effects of the dana that the BOE published last Tuesday. The latter must be requested from the family doctor and will be paid by Social Security from the first day of absence.

Another point that worries the employers is that the Executive’s aid package is limited to companies with registered offices and not to all those affected by the damage, whether or not they have their domicile in one of the 69 Valencian municipalities affected.

CC OO, for its part, awaits clarification on the different types of possible scenarios in which an ERTE of force majeure can be requested, which allows greater exemptions in Social Security contributions for companies and workers. Furthermore, the companies covered by these files will not have to pay the salaries of the employees affected by the ERTE, but rather the Public Employment Service (SEPE) will pay them.

The aforementioned union, as well as the employers’ association, welcome the implementation of force majeure ERTE, since there are many possible scenarios in which a company could be affected by the damage without being in one of the areas affected by it. An example would be Ford Almussafes, a key plant for Valencian industrial activity with 4,100 employees that is intact, but has suffered the loss of a key supplier, Industrias Alegre, which is located in Catarroja. Patiño also mentions other types of cases, such as the fact that it is not the company that is affected, but rather its main client that has been hit by the damage.

In the case of Ford, the corporate has already introduced a drive majeure ERTE for its Valencia plant, though this has not but been authorised. “The labor authority, which must approve the files, is waiting for the promised Labor standard to begin giving approval to ERTE due to force majeure,” says a union supply.