SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct 21 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The business association CEOE and the National Federation of Associations of Autonomous Workers (ATA) have requested to protect with the “utmost urgency” the self-employed and businessmen of La Palma, guaranteeing that they can access the aid approved for those affected by the eruption of the volcano of Cumbre Vieja.
All this after understanding that the current wording of Royal Decree-Law 18/2021, of September 28, of urgent measures for the protection of employment, economic recovery and the improvement of the labor market “leaves out the benefit to the self-employed workers and employers who are in charge of workers “, since they have to withdraw from self-employment, cease activity and, therefore, dismiss their employees to collect this extraordinary help, a matter of which they assure” they have already alerted ” September 29.
In this sense, they clarify in a joint statement that a “similar correction” was necessary in March 2020 after the publication of Royal Decree-Law 8/2020, of March 17, of extraordinary urgent measures to face the economic impact and Covid-19, an issue that was corrected on April 8, allowing the self-employed and entrepreneurs to access the benefit without unsubscribing from the RETA.
The more than 5,000 self-employed on La Palma who are being seriously affected by the eruption of the volcano in their businesses and farms “cannot access the benefit since they are forced, with the current wording, to unsubscribe from the RETA” , which they indicate “is impossible for many” freelancers and businessmen on the island because they have workers under their charge and requires their prior dismissal.
In addition, they add, that it would also imply “losing the bonuses to which they have previously accessed the eruption of the volcano and having to return the aid received in the pandemic provided that these, as is usually done, are linked to the maintenance of the activity and the employment “, to which they add that the self-employed, who have a flat rate, would lose the possibility of continuing with this bonus.
For this reason, CEOE and ATA request an “immediate solution to avoid abandonment” of these self-employed, companies and workers on La Palma, who “cannot” be left “abandoned at a time when many of them are losing it. everything”.
