The Executive approved last Tuesday a Royal Decree Law 15/2020 establishing new urgent measures to support both the economy and employment and which we summarize below:2-month extension for teleworking priority.2-month extension for the MECUIDO Plan, to serve dependent people.
The reduction of hours entails the reduction of salary, although the Government of Spain stated in the first instance that it would approve an aid to partially compensate for this loss of salary.Cooperatives.
During the crisis, cooperative funds are allowed to become more flexible in order to face the operating difficulties that have arisen and to make the requirements for the establishment and operation of labor companies more flexible.Access to unemployment benefit for people dismissed in this crisis, in the trial period of their contracts since March 9.Access to unemployment benefit for those who voluntarily terminated their contracts since March 1 for having a firm job offer that has not materialized due to the Covid-19 crisis.Possibility that companies that provide essential services can do an ERTE on the workforce that does not fulfill these necessary tasks.Fixed-discontinuous workers will be entitled to an unemployment benefit for 90 days, even if they have already exhausted their unemployment.
Possibility that companies can include these workers in ERTEs for shorter working hours or suspension of contracts, thus being able to request unemployment benefits like the rest of the workers.The deadlines are suspended in the field of action of the Labor and Social Security Inspection.As for companies and the self-employed, the Government of Spain has approved that fractional payments can be adjusted to the closing situation and also that the self-employed can temporarily renounce the module tax system.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alhama de Murcia