1. REFORMS IN EMPLOYMENT MATTERS
Madrid, 28 October 2015

2. Term objectives: to stimulate growth and job creation
Diagnosis: global recession, financial system difficulties, lack of competitiveness and labour market flexibility.
Comprehensive reform strategy: restructuring of the financial system, fiscal consolidation and improving competitiveness.
Improving competitiveness:
Ensuring Market Unit
Reinforcement of competition
Indexation of the economy
Energetic reform
Public Administration Reform
Labour Reform

3. Reforms in the labour market
Starting point, structural weaknesses: wage inertia that limit productivity, lack of flexibility, collective bargaining not adapted to reality.
Labour Reform:
Encourage internal flexibility:
Replacing the professional categories for professional groups.
Simplification of the substantial change in working conditions.
Promoting alternatives to dismissal: suspensions and reduced working hours.
2. Promotion of a modern collective bargaining:
Facilitating partial non-application or opt-out of collective agreements as an alternative to dismissal.
Giving greater prominence to the company agreement.
Setting in a year the indefinite ultra activity , unless otherwise agreed.
3. Favour the efficiency of the labour market:
Generalizing compensation for unfair dismissal in 33 days.
Removing prior administrative approval in collective employment regulation measures.
Eliminating “express "redundancy

4. Reforms of Active Employment Policies
Double objective: greater effectiveness and efficiency
Effectiveness:
Coordination: Activation Strategy for Employment, PAPE, identifying market needs.
Rating: 70% conditionality of funds based on achievement of objectives.
Recruitment incentives:
Flat rate price of 50 € for new self employers: today 353,126 benefit
Flat fee of 100€ for Indefinite labour contract 100: 328,000 benefit today.
Minimum Exempt 500€: 108,000 benefit today.
Measures from Entrepreneurship and Youth Employment Strategy : 353,126 benefit today.
Youth Guarantee: enrolled.
Efficiency:
Combating fraud, limiting advances, check training.
Promoting public-private partnership (agencies)
Competition in the management of funds, especially in training for employment.

5. Measures for the protection of the unemployed
Objective: To ensure long-term sustainability and solidarity model of unemployment protection, complemented with other protection mechanisms such as social insertion income of autonomous communities.
Reinforcement measures in the field of active policies:
PREPARA Program: extension until unemployment> 20%, greater amount 450€.
PAE program: almost 100,000 attended with a degree of inclusion of 15%.
Orientation Program for new long-term unemployed. > 30 year budget of more than 500M € in 2 years for guidance.

6. Measures to promote self-employment, health and safety, and corporate social responsibility
Self-employment: flat rate, offering the combination of unemployment benefits with the starting of a self-employed activity, possibility to choose a reduced contribution base in the case of multiple activity.
Health and Safety: it has been approved the Spanish Security Strategy and Health at Work , developed with the consensus of the social partners and regional government.
Corporate Social Responsibility: Spanish Strategy for Corporate Social Responsibility. The Strategy responds to the recommendations reflected in the renewed EU Strategy on Corporate Social Responsibility and contains a total of 60 measures aimed at promoting CSR among all types of organizations and in society as a whole.

7. Measures to promote self-employment, health and safety, and corporate social responsibility
Collective bargaining: number of agreements increases year after year since 2012: 16%, 83% and 33%
Collective redundancies: reduced by 50%, from 67,981 to 34,277 workers affected in 2014.
With moderate growth in GDP of around 1% net employment generation has been achieved - ever seen in Spain until this moment.El economic growth is strong in generating employment (3.1% growth and job creation 3 , 2% -all growth translates into job creation,).
Spain getting out of the crisis by creating stable employment, permanent employment from the beginning (today in Spain 75% of the people who work have a permanent job, whereas before the crisis, the figure was 69%).
Spain gets out of the economic crisis with growth of youth employment from the outset (youth employment is growing at 8%). In the crisis of the 90s we had to wait two years for youth employment to be created; now youth employment is created from scratch.
Growth is happening in all sectors

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