The unions have asked the Government that partial retirement can be brought forward by 4 years and can be carried out in all sectors of activity. In addition, they have proposed that the replacement contract carried out as a replacement be indefinite, full-time and non-amortizable.
In this way and with these proposals, CCOO and UGT have conveyed this Monday to the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration their rejection of the proposal on the partial retirement reform that was put on the social dialogue table for representing a “worsening” about the current regulation of this type of withdrawal.
The Secretary of Public Policies and Social Protection of CCOO, Carlos Bravo, has warned that the Government’s proposal “does not have the support of any of the social partners.” Although there are some interesting aspects in the Ministry’s approach, Bravo considers that “there are negative elements that lead to trying to limit” the modality of partial retirement, such as maintaining the limit of two years of advance payment established at the time by the Government of the PP, which cut them from four to two years.
The Secretary of Institutional Policy and Territorial Policies of UGT, Cristina Estévez, has stressed that partial retirement “is a progressive way out of the labor market” and that its reform must serve to make it “an opportunity and not to make it worse.” “.
Although he has indicated that the objectives are shared with the Ministry, the proposal he presented 15 days ago “does not go” along these lines. Thus, both Estévez and Bravo have demanded from Social Security that partial retirement can be accessed up to four years before the ordinary retirement age, two years more than what the Ministry of Elma Saiz proposes.
In addition, the head of UGT has requested that the working day can continue to be specified and that the recalculation of the pension be 100% when the partial retiree definitively withdraws from the labor market.
“We are in a position to see sector by sector if there is any idiosyncrasy, some particularity that has to be seen on the table, we do not refuse it, but certainly not the approach that the Ministry makes. Today what it does is reduce rights in all forms of early retirement,” Estévez denounced.
For the CCOO representative, it is necessary that, when partial retirement is associated with a relief contract, the quality of employment of relief workers be improved, giving them indefinite, full-time contracts for “non-amortizable” jobs.
Government, unions and employers will meet again on May 13 to continue negotiating the aspects that still remain to be developed of the pension reform.
Regarding the coefficients that reduce access to retirement for toxic, arduous, unhealthy or dangerous jobs, the unions have indicated that there has been progress, although “there is still some way to go.”
They have pointed to “problems when determining the way to address which groups may have that need” and have added that there are “relevant differences” with respect to many groups “where the exact measurement of how many temporary disability processes there have been or how many accidents there have been are not very precise. In this sense, Estévez has denounced that feminized professions that have high hardship ratios, such as housekeepers, caregivers of dependents or home help workers, continue to be left out of the Ministry’s approach. “We do not see the possibility of assuming this regulation knowing that the largest part of the population is left out,” she warned.
