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Labor developments of the General State Budget Law for the year 2018

We inform you of the main WORK NEWS, especially in matters of Social Security contributions, included in Law 6/2018 of the General State Budget for the year 2018, published in the BOE of July 4, 2018. The duration of the paternity leave will be 5 weeks from 05-07-2018 and will be enjoyed uninterruptedly except for the last week of the period of time to which it is entitled, which, after agreement between employer and worker, can be enjoyed independently at another time during the nine months following the date of birth of the child, the court ruling or the administrative decision. ...

Important news for freelancers 22.06.2017

LAST CRITERIA ON REGISTRATION HOURS

The Law on Urgent Measures of Self-employment was practically closed yesterday at the meeting of the Congress of Deputies where it has been negotiated. This standard includes a dozen of novelties; The Law could be sent today to the Senate, so that it could come into effect from the end of June or early July. The newest measure is that freelancers with employees in their position and fulfilled their legal retirement age will be able to reconcile the 100% payment of their pension with the maintenance of their activity, what is called Active Retirement. For the rest of the...

Criterion of the Labor Inspection on timetables

LAST CRITERIA ON REGISTRATION HOURS

The Labor Inspection has put an end to the uncertainty: there will be no sanctions for companies that do not have a daily record of the work day of their employees. The organization has issued among its employees the Instruction 1/2017, the content determines that the lack of this time control "is not constitutive, as such, of a violation of the social order." The document, signed May 18th, recognizes that after the Supreme Court overthrew the obligation of registration - in a ruling dated March 21; Doctrine confirmed in another on April 20 - it is necessary to amend the inspection criterion...

Companies must keep a daily record of the day of ALL their employees

LAST CRITERIA ON REGISTRATION HOURS

Labor Inspection will continue to require companies that carry a daily record of the day of ALL of their employees. The change in criterion that seems to be deduced from a recent ruling by the Supreme Court is not so clear; It generated confusion but these days the same Inspection has clarified what will be the criterion that will follow from this sentence and this criterion is that: "The Labor and Social Security Inspection will continue to require companies to register the day-to-day work, because to verify with accuracy the realization or not of overtime, you must know the ordinary...

Before 02.05.2017, the price may be increased to the self-employed

VOLUNTARY INCREASE QUOTATION AUTOMOBILE 2017

Before May 1 there is the opportunity to modify the contribution base of the Special Regime for Self- Employed Workers and the quota to pay within the limits allowed according to their age. If you are interested in modifying the aforementioned base or quota (in order to increase the calculation base of the Retirement or the termination of Temporary Disability and other benefits), we would be grateful if you would let us know as soon as possible. Attach, for example, a detail with some options ( valid amounts for 2017 ): Contribution base € / month Type of...

Contribution to Social Security 2017

Order ESS / 106/2017, published in the BOE of February 11, 2017, develops the rules of contribution of the Social Security, unemployment, protection for cessation of activity, Wage Guarantee Fund and vocational training for the year 2017 , With effects from January 1, 2017. The Order updates the amounts of the MAXIMUM limit of the contribution base to the Social Security in those schemes that have it established and the MAXIMUM contribution bases applicable in each one of them, to apply the increases of 3% with respect to the current ones In 2016, which established the RD-law 3/2016. It...

Official Calendar Labor Festivals 2017

The present is to inform the Official Calendar of Labor Festivals for the year 2017 , as established by Order TSF / 137/2016 , of June 6 and Order TSF / 341/2016, of 30 November FESTIVALS OF CATALONIA 6 JANUARY Friday DAY OF REIS 14 17 APRIL APRIL Friday Monday SAIT FRIDAY EASTER MONDAY 1 MAY Monday WORKING PARTY 24 JUNE Saturday SAINT JOHN 15 AUGUST Tuesday THE ASSUMPTION 11 SEPTEMBER Monday NATIONAL FESTIVAL OF...

Labor and Social Security developments for 2017

• Fixing the minimum interprofessional salary for 2017 (DA only) The Government, in accordance with the provisions of article 27.1 of the revised text of the Workers' Statute Law, approved by Royal Legislative Decree 2/2015, of October 23, the minimum interprofessional salary for 2017 with An increase of 8% over what is established in Royal Decree 1171/2015, of December 29, which establishes the minimum wage for the interprofessional by 2016. Likewise, the Government must determine the effect of this increase on references to the minimum wage in the collective agreements in force...

Changes in severance payments for temporary contracts

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled in relation to Spanish labor regulations with the sentence of September 14, 2106, which states that, contrary to what has been done so far, the principle of non-discrimination between temporary workers And it should be noted that it demands the equality of its working conditions, it must also be respected in the compensation due to the termination of the contract: until now, this principle of equal treatment was interpreted in the sense that no Different conditions of work could be established without more reason than the temporality of the...

Obligation of companies to keep a record of the hours of work of all the workers

NEW CRITERIA IN CONTROL OF THE WORKING DAY

The recent instruction 3/2016 of the Inspection of Work and Social Security, considers that "it is not admissible that, with the invocation of the flexible hours offered by the labor regulations, they can harm the rights of workers and alter their balance Contractual by means of the improper prolongation of the working day ". In other words, entrepreneurs can not take refuge in the hours flexibility of the day not to pay overtime. Quite the contrary, this body of the Ministry of Employment considers in this instruction to its inspectors that the flexibility in business hours justifies...

Option to modify contribution base of the Special Scheme for Self-Employed Workers - RETA-

Possibility of modifying the contribution base

Of the Special Scheme for Self-Employed Workers - RETA-

AUTOMATION QUOTE BASE We inform you that, before NOVEMBER 1 , they have the opportunity to modify the contribution base of the Special Regime for Self-Employed Workers and the quota to pay within the limits allowed according to their age. If you are interested in modifying the aforementioned base or quota (in order to increase the base of calculation of retirement or the Temporary Disability), we would be grateful if you would let us know as soon as possible. Attach, for example, a comparative scale with some options ( valid amounts for 2015 ). Contribution base € /...

Urgent reform of the system of vocational training for employment in the labor sphere

Royal Decree-Law 4/2015 of 22 March regulating a comprehensive reform of the system of vocational training for employment, pursue four objectives: ensuring the exercise of the right to education of workers, employees and the unemployed; the effective contribution of training to business competitiveness; strengthening collective bargaining on the adequacy of the training requirements of the production system, as well as efficiency and transparency in the management of public resources. The measures contained in this Royal Decree is necessary to highlight the set in the following points: ...

New Labour and Social Security in 2015

Below lesprincipals new Employment and Social Security of the Budget Law for 2015 and other standards published recently: · Increased 0.5% amounts to the minimum wage in 2015 (€ 648.60 / month). · The maximum contribution base for the General Scheme increased by 0.25% in 2015, being € 3,606.00 / month or € 120.20 / day. The minimum bases increased by the same percentage increases SMI. · Self-employed workers who, at 1 January 2015 have 47 years old and listed on the RETA a base less than € 1,926.60 per month will not be able...

Revaluation of pensions and public benefits: 0.25%

Urgent measures for growth, competitiveness and efficiency - October 2014

Law 18/2014, of October 15, on the approval of urgent measures for growth, competitiveness and efficiency. This Law ratifies the measures contained in Royal Decree Law 8/2014 of July 4, approving urgent measures for growth, competitiveness and efficiency, published in the BOE on July 5. In Title IV "Measures to promote employability and employment" is Develops the National System of Juvenile Guarantee, whose main purpose is that the group of young people not occupied or integrated in education or training systems and who are over the age of 16 and under 25, or under 30 Years in the...

Early retirement. Change of criteria.

The Social Security has issued a new criterion for the interpretation of the rules of early retirement that allows retirement at 61 years of workers who currently have a special agreement and do not come from a collective dismissal. With the tightening of the requirements for early retirement derived from Royal Decree Law 5/2013 of March 15, measures to promote the continuity of working life of older workers and promote active aging, most Of the affected people signed a special agreement with the Social Security to maintain their rights and avoid a reduction of the future pension. ...

Minimum interprofessional salary for the year 2015: € 648.60 / month - € 21.62 per day

Royal Decree 1106/2014, of December 26, which establishes the minimum wage for 2015 (BOE 12-22-2014) In compliance with the mandate for the Government to set the minimum wage in the year, contained in article 27.1 of the Law of the Workers' Statute, a consolidated text approved by Royal Legislative Decree 1/1995, of March 24, is hereby approved by means of this royal decree To establish the amounts that must be effective as of January 1, 2015, for both permanent and temporary workers, as well as for home employees. The new amounts, which represent an increase of 0.5 percent from those in...

Modifications in the management and control of processes due to temporary incapacity

Modifications in the management and control of IT processes

Royal Decree 625/2014, of July 18, regulating certain aspects of the management and control of processes for temporary disability in the first 365 days. Scope of application During the first 365 days, the IT processes, regardless of the determining contingency, will be applied, which are those that are included in any of the regimes that make up the Social Security system to carry out a work or activity For someone else's or your own. They are excluded: the special regimes of the Armed Forces, civil servants of the State Administration and of personnel at the service of the Justice...

The Supreme Court softens the requirements to collect widowhood pens for separated or divorced persons

The Plenary Session of the Social Chamber modifies the doctrine that it had until now requiring that the pension received after divorce or separation be fixed in a nominal manner and expressly as a compensatory pension. The Plenary Session of the Social Chamber has agreed to recognize the provision of widowhood to a woman who, after separation, had received a monthly amount in terms of maintenance, without the separation regulating agreement having set a compensatory pension but only food , Although the beneficiary did not have the common child in charge of it. The Chamber recalls that...