Bill would consolidate hiring incentives and improve social protection for artists

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1. The bill would bring together in a single rule the hiring incentives, currently spread across about 74 scattered measures. Its goal is to promote stable, quality employment, especially for vulnerable groups.
2. It sets Social Security contribution rebates for the permanent hiring of specific groups: people with borderline intellectual functioning, women who are victims of gender violencegender violence Violence a woman suffers from a current or former partner because she is a woman. or trafficking, people at risk of social exclusion, long-term unemployed people, or victims of terrorism, among others.
3. Anyone receiving a rebate for permanent hiring must keep the worker employed for at least three years. If the requirements are not met, the amounts not paid must be returned with surcharges and interest.
4. It would allow collecting 100% of the retirement pension while doing artistic work, either self-employed or as an employee, with the duty to register and contribute for work-related contingencies plus a special solidarity contribution of 9%.
5. It creates a special unemployment benefit for performing, audiovisual and music artists, adapted to the intermittent nature of their work: 120 days long, at 80% of the IPREMIPREM A public income index used in Spain to calculate the amount of many public benefits., or 100% if their contribution bases average more than 60 euros per day.
6. Self-employed artists with low income (3,000 euros a year or less) could contribute on a reduced base, set at 526.14 euros per month for 2023, and could pay their contributions quarterly on request.
7. It regulates how the rebates are applied and checked: the General Treasury of Social Security applies them automatically, the State Public Employment Service verifies the requirements, and the Labor Inspectorate oversees their proper use.
8. The planned entry into force is September 1, 2023, with exceptions: the measures on artists take effect earlier, between April 1 and July 1, 2023.

Who it affects

• Companies and employers: They could apply Social Security contribution rebates when permanently hiring vulnerable groups, with a duty to keep the job for three years.
• Artists: They would gain a special unemployment benefit adapted to intermittent work, full compatibility between retirement pension and artistic activity, and a reduced contribution base for low-income self-employed artists.
• Unemployed people and vulnerable groups: They are the target of the hiring incentives: low-qualification young people, people with disabilities, victims of gender violence, long-term unemployed people, among others.
• Self-employed workers and cooperatives: Rebates for self-employed workers in Ceuta and Melilla are kept, and it becomes easier to cash out unemployment benefits in a lump sum to join a cooperative or worker-owned company.

Words worth knowing

Bonificación en la cotización (contribution rebate)

A discount the employer applies to the Social Security contributions it pays for its workers.

IPREM

A public income index used in Spain to calculate the amount of many public benefits.

Contingencias profesionales (work-related contingencies)

Workplace accidents and illnesses caused by work, as opposed to common contingencies, which are ordinary illnesses and accidents.

Contrato fijo-discontinuo (permanent seasonal contract)

A permanent contract for a worker who is employed only during certain periods of the year, when the company calls them in.

Capitalización del paro (cashing out unemployment benefits)

Receiving the unemployment benefit as a single lump sum to start a business or become a partner in a cooperative.

gender violence

Violence a woman suffers from a current or former partner because she is a woman.

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