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The regulation developed by the Fund for the Compensation of Victims of Amento enters into power this Thursday, two years and eight months after the provisions of the legislation that created it. But for the highest leaders of CC OO, Unai Sordo, and UGT, Pepe Álvarez, that background is “very insufficient and is late.” Specifically, the union leaders criticize that the declare processes, which may start to be processed any further, will miss of the affected and that the anticipated compensation will likely be remarkably decrease than people who the courts have been issued. These multiply on common by three people who plan to grant the State, in accordance with the centrals.

The Regulation underneath the Social Security Department – which, have criticized Sorda and Álvarez, has not been agreed with these affected or with union organizations – will solely enable the employees to profit from employees who’re alive who’ve been acknowledged for a everlasting incapacity attributable to publicity to asbestos. This group would barely attain 700 folks, in accordance with information from the National Social Security Institute cited on Wednesday by Jon García, spokesman for the associations of individuals affected by the asbestos all through Spain, who has participated with the union leaders in a press convention to denounce the deficiencies of the brand new regulation. The act has served to say the Government to switch the authorized textual content.

The fund, with an preliminary endowment of 25 million euros, leaves out the heirs of the hundreds of affected employees who’ve died in current a long time. And this has denounced Sordo, though the authorities know the damages of the asbestos about well being for the reason that seventies. Nor will relations be acknowledged who, in flip, have been contaminated by on a regular basis life with sufferers by publicity (the so -called environmental affected). In addition, the union accountable have assured that “in Spain we continue to live with the asbestos.”

Regarding the insufficiency of compensation, Jon García has detailed that 96,626 euros have been stipulated for these recognized with Mesoteliomas; 64,414 euros for many who have contracted lung most cancers; 44,310 euros for larynx most cancers; and 32,207 euros for many who undergo asbestosis. “They are very far from what is normally achieved by judicial means, where these amounts multiply by three, at least,” stated the victims’ spokesman. As examples, the case of compensation of 3447,587 euros obtained by the household of a BSH extrabajador in Estella (Navarra) died of lung most cancers per inhalation might be cited. Or the case of one other household of a Babcock Wilcox worker in Bilbao, who died by a pleural mesotelioma, whose compensation amounted to nearly 315,000 euros.

Moreover, he assured that the uprights deliberate by the Spanish Fund are additionally a lot decrease than these granted by the French State, the place compensation “are three times greater and also collect other diagnoses such as mild asbestosis or plaques and pleural embrocessing.” In reality, Sordo has estimated in additional than 7,000 million the compensation given to these affected French in recent times, in comparison with the 25 million deliberate by the Spanish Fund, which has not but begun to be distributed and that they don’t accumulate from one yr to a different if they aren’t spent.

Doubts about taxation

The victims of the asbestos, though hopeful as a result of, at the least, the granting of state aids have began, they’ve additionally reproached the federal government that has not clarified if the compensation will likely be exempt from taxation, as a result of, if not, “the amounts that are granted would remain in less than half,” in accordance with Garcia. At the second, solely Navarra and the Basque Country, which have powers for this, have assured that they won’t pay. This, García has denounced, would generate discrimination with the remainder of the Spanish territory if they might not lastly be exempt.

The spokesman of these affected additionally sees discrimination with respect to different circumstances during which the State has been thought of accountable, whose quantities are a lot larger and don’t pay tax. This is the case, Garcia stated, of the victims of terrorism, whose compensation quantity to half one million euros; of the victims of AIDS for blood transfusions (126,000 euros); or these of the talidomide (396,000 euros). “We are discriminated on all sides,” added the consultant of the associations.

To the deficiencies of the regulation denouncing the unions add “the bureaucratic tangle” that, as they denounce, have established these answerable for the Social Security to entry the help. The UGT common secretary that this responds to the “unjustified fear that the Government has to be an avalanche of applications.”

The centrals have criticized the requirement imposed on the Autonomous Communities, “fast and running in last July”, in order that they create “evaluation commissions.” These will likely be answerable for issuing certificates of the popularity of occupational illness in order that these affected go to the window of the National Social Security Institute to request compensation. “To date, not a single of these commissions has not been constituted,” Garcia has accomplished, “so you can give the paradox that on December 31 they remain without existing and the 25 million scheduled for this year go to the paper, as those of the previous years.” “It’s total hairmade,” he added.

For all these causes, CC OO and UGT embrace the reform of the fund as one of many pressing points to say in negotiations with the Executive and, notably, with the Department of Social Security. “You have to change the regulation as soon as possible not to sharpen the differences between those who request compensation now or later,” stated Deaf. This has linked the motion with one other future Trade Union Criminal: The revision of the overall recognition of occupational illnesses. “In Spain, only 0.1% of occupational diseases are cancers, while in Germany they are 32%; that does not justify the high German industrialization,” the CC OO chief has complained.