Of interest to freelancers and companies in the face of escalation

Self-employed

We remind you that Royal Decree-Law 8/2020, of 17 March, establishes the bases for the extraordinary benefit for cessation of activity, to which self-employed workers are entitled. The RD states that the period of validity will be subject to the duration of the alarm state.

Now, in cases where the self-employed resume their activity, depending on the different phases of the de-escalation, it is not necessary for them to communicate anything to their mutual society, as the benefit is compatible with reinstatement.

And is that this feature will only be turned off automatically when the alarm status is raised.

ERTO and activation of workers

According to Criterion DGT-SGON-927CRA, on the application of the measures of suspension and reduction of the working day during the phase of confinement in the state of alarm, the companies that are applying the measures of suspension or reduction of the day they may resign, in whole or in part, with respect to part or all of the staff, and progressively as the reasons associated with force majeure disappear. It will also be possible to alter the suspensive measure initially proposed and facilitate traffic towards reductions in working hours, which have a lower economic impact on the working person and will meet the gradually increasing supply and demand of products and services of companies.

It will be essential to make these communications in advance before the worker begins to provide services, or make any changes to their working day, to avoid sanctions by the Labor Inspectorate.