The Government is preparing an improvement in the retirement conditions of discontinuous permanent workers, those who, although they have a permanent contract, work some months a year and not others, due to the seasonality of the activity to which they are dedicated. As indicated by the unions, at the meeting of the pension dialogue table this morning, the Ministry of Inclusion and Social Security has committed to equalizing the access conditions of discontinuous permanent employees with those who work part-time throughout the entire period. year.
At the end of the meeting, Carlos Bravo, Secretary of Social Protection and Public Policies of CC.OO., stated that it is a “situation that has to be resolved immediately because in recent months there have been incidents in access to the retirement of this group.”
Also from UGT, Cristina Estévez, secretary of institutional policy and territorial policies, has confirmed this commitment of the Government. However, union sources clarify that “we do not have text and we do not know if this equalization will be total.”
From Social Security, they recognize that “it has been proposed to bring access to benefits for discontinuous permanent workers to the table.”
This move by the Government is what the unions have highlighted as positive about the meeting, in addition to an announcement from Social Security anticipating that in a few weeks it will reach 21 million members.
On the other hand, there is no progress on other issues, such as the mechanisms to set coefficients that reduce the retirement age for toxic, arduous, unhealthy or dangerous jobs. From UGT they point out that the ministry discusses “the concept of retirement age”, and point out that the incorporation of hardship is no longer in question, although the parameters to objectify it have yet to be established.
It also remains to be developed how the collaboration of mutual insurance companies will be carried out to accelerate the processes of temporary disability, where the positions of the Ministry of Inclusion and Social Security and business owners do not coincide, who want a more widespread use of mutual insurance companies and of the unions, who seek to limit it precisely.
Another open dossier is that of partial retirement, how the possibility of working only part of the day during the last years of one’s working life is organized. In this area, unions insist on increasing the use and facilitating access to relief contracts.
