📋 Tender Overview
The Congress of Deputies today confirmed in plenary session Royal Decree Law 242020 on social measures to reactivate employment and social protection of self-employment and competitiveness in the industrial sector.The Minister of Labor Yolanda Daz has defended in the parliamentary rostrum a text that is the result of the agreement within the framework of the Social Dialogue and has urged the Chamber to collect the witness from the social partners. The Royal Decree validated today extends the Records of Temporary Employment Regulation ERTE until next September 30 establishing the prohibition of dismissal the commitment to maintain employment as well as preventing the distribution of dividends in the corresponding fiscal year the ERTE as well as the domiciliation of the benefited companies in tax havens.RDL 24 contemplates for the first time exemptions from Social Security for productive ERTEs. In addition the Minister of Labor recalled that the disappearance of the ERTE due to force majeure could not however be total at this time because there is the possibility unfortunately that we are living of outbreaks of the epidemic. For this reason and in keeping with the transition to normality RDL 242020 has adapted the ERTE due to ordinary force majeure for cases of regrowth .Daz has also broken down the measures established by RDL 242020 to support the maintenance of economic activity for self-employed people. This is the exemption in the social security contribution applicable as of July 1 2020 for those self-employed persons who were recovering the activity the exceptional possibility of access to the cessation of activity provision in those cases where there had been a drop in billing of at least 75 in the third quarter of 2020 and the establishment of an extraordinary cessation of activity benefit for seasonal workers.The Royal Decree validated today by Congress also includes specific measures dedicated to reinforcing the position of electro-intensive companies. For this purpose the Spanish Reserve Fund for Guarantees of Electrointensive Entities is created which implies the coverage on behalf of the State of the risks derived from medium and long-term purchase and sale operations of the electricity supply between electrointensive consumers and the different energy suppliers electric on the market.As the Minister of Labor has concluded in her defense of the text the Royal Decree is a rule of economic reactivation and above all of commitment to individuals and companies. It arises at a critical moment in which the objective is not only to solve one more problem but to consolidate jobs professions companies and industries so that they are capable of creating wealth securing rights recognizing efforts and constituting a model that reflects collective solidarity. that we have built during the pandemic in partnership with the social partners. Royal Decree 242020 will be processed as a Bill in the Congress of Deputies.
