A total of 8,237 workers have been included in a temporary employment regulation file (ERTE) in the last thirty days. Companies have resorted en masse this system in full counterreloj for its extinction, which can be interpreted as a way to press the government and get these protection systems to be extended beyond February 28, or as a symptom of the cooling of the economy.
According to the advance affiliation data on Friday by the Social Security Minister, José Luis Escrivá, between January 13 and February 17, the number of workers in Erte in the country has gone from 110,574 to 118,811, which represents an increase Of 7.4%, after months of dropping in the use of this system.
Data disaggregated by ERTE type show that not all the increase is due to the expansion of the omicron variant, in fact most employees that have been included in this instrument in the last month have not done it by the pandemic or by The administrative restrictions derived from the health situation.
Of the 8,237 that have been affected, 5,246 have been included in ERTE for economic, technical, organizational and productive reasons (ETOP), the most used by the industrial or automotive sector, before the lack of supplies, and by those companies From other sectors that can no longer prove that their fall in activity is due to the pandemic.
These ERTE do not entail exonerations in the payment of social contributions to social security and, therefore, do not lead to implicit a commitment to maintain employment.
For its part, the number of workers included in an Erte Covid has grown by 3,602 people since mid-January, due to the increase in the accumulated incidence and the measures imposed in some communities. The number of employees affected by the special eRTEs that the government enabled before the irruption of the Volcano de la Palma has dropped by 610 people in the last thirty days.
These fluctuations place the total number of workers affected by an erte Covid in 104,363 people, at the close of last Thursday, while there are 13,644 affiliates in an ErtO ETOP and only 804 in a special erte of the palm.
Most of those who have been included in ERTE at this time has been with total suspension, since 5,523 of those affected does not work any day of the week, while 3,325 have been included in a partial suspension eRT, that is, they are Assets but they work fewer hours. In total, 62,562 affected by ERTE has total suspension and 55,445, partial.
"We arrive at the end of the ERTE when the number of affected at levels that are very low, are stabilized, around 50% of those affected are active and with a unique sector, especially involvement, which is that of travel agencies "He has celebrated Escrivá, although many of those affected by Erte have been without working almost two years.
This sector has not been able to recover from the decline in activity and every day more names of companies that are negotiating new erte are being known or are intended to extend those who have in force, such as Nautia or hawk travel.
With the entry into force of labor reform since last January and at the end of the last Royal Decree of Extension, which expires on the 28th, companies have to resort to other routes before sinking scenarios of their activity.
They have three options: opt for limiting eRTE or force greater regulating Article 47 of the Workers' Statute - but they are much more restrictive and to be approved, it is necessary that there are administrative restrictions that prevent the activity - resort to the ERTE ETOP - which have always existed- or to opt for the network mechanism as long as the Government has activated it. At the moment, they only have it planned for travel agencies, which have 10,800 workers on ERTE.
It is an emergency umbrella in which only those sectors that the government consider that they need it well because the sector is reconvection structurally (sectoral modality) or before economic shock (cyclical modality).
Companies that can not benefit from the network will have a period of adaptation to transit from the erte prior to the new ones that will predictate a month, according to the second vice president and minister of work, Yolanda Diaz. At that time, they will have to request the limiting erte or force majeure, which will probably be granted a few, or negotiate an ETOP.
Date Of Update: 19 February 2022, 00:08
