Just as jobs reform was committed in Brussels at the end of last year, another important milestone agreed with the European Commission is unemployment reform. List before the end of 2022. The promise is to negotiate with the social representatives to reorganize the welfare division of the social protection system, but the CCOO also wants some cuts inherited from the labor reform and supplementary legislation passed during Mariano Rajoy’s tenure; among others, the reduction of unemployment benefits agreed in 2012, which reduced the amount of this benefit from 60% to 50% of the regulatory base from the sixth month of receipt.
The cost of this measure, according to the union, 1500 million euros per yearThis includes reclaiming the ten lost points plus the State’s obligation to contribute to the unemployed that was handed over to the unemployed ten years ago. To this change, the CCOO adds the need for benefits to be paid in full, eliminating the possibility of partialization of some benefits (another innovation dating back to 2012) and reviewing care protection so that there are no gaps in coverage. the unemployed do not receive any amount. For this, the union demands that the negotiation table, which should reform the system, be opened as soon as possible.
long term unemployment
The CCOO supports the need for changes to the social protection system data that they analyzed in their semi-annual report on unemployment protection presented this Wednesday. In the text, which examines the figures for the last six months of 2021, it is pointed out that the coverage rate – the percentage of the unemployed with access to assistance – is 62.6%, and this figure covers more than a decade already. Between 55% and 65% (it reached 80% before the financial crisis). In addition long-term unemployed 48% and—remembers the union—“these people’s long periods of unemployment make it difficult to return to the labor market, and in many cases, [suponen] exhaustion of protection measures”.
In this sense, the report states that only 17% of the unemployed with work experience could not benefit from any rights in 2009, and that this rate will increase in 2021. reached 35%: “Not only social benefits, but also the unemployment benefit system needs to be reviewed, a significant number of 1,007,980 people who lost their jobs and were excluded from unemployment protection should be able to access their social benefits and other social benefits, aid or benefit,” the text argues.
resource allocation
The union also advocates widening unemployment. resource allocation system Financing that has been reinforced in the pension system in recent years, where premium payments must be paid by contributions made by companies and workers, and social benefits through the General Government Budget. Analysis by CCOO official figures reveals that in the last two decades there have been only six years in which expenditure on contributions has exceeded income from unemployment contributions; In the other 14, it was social contributions that contributed to the financing of other aids.
“In recent years we have witnessed a deterioration in the quality of unemployment protection: there is more benefits than contributions, something that did not exist before the 2008 crisis and women are particularly hitbecause they are more affected by part-time and reduced benefits,” he explains. Charles Brave, CCOO Public Policy Secretary; “We need to reverse the cuts in 2012, extend unemployment coverage to domestic workers and temporary farm workers, and improve the protection system as a whole,” he sums up.