Escrivá charges 20% of the unemployment contribution of domestic workers to families

Families and those who hire a domestic worker will have that cost 20% of the unemployment contribution that will entitle the group to unemployment next October. The State pays the remaining 80%, at least during the remainder of the year, and imposes a rate of 6,05% until 2023, of which the beneficiaries will have to pay 5% while the worker will be responsible for 1,05 %. At the moment, as reflected in the royal decree law that will be approved by the Council of Ministers in the coming days, and to which ABC has agreed, this will be the new contribution scheme for domestic workers in force between October 1, 2022 and December 31, 2022. For next year, it will be the Budgets that are agreed upon that set the type of contribution and the benefits to apply. In addition, as reflected in the text that has been signed by the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, José Luis Escrivá, and by the Second Vice President and Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, temporarily until the end of the year the type contribution to the Salary Guarantee Fund will be 0,2% “exclusively by the worker”. Response to the ruling of the CJEU The royal decree law, as indicated in the preamble, seeks to equate the working and Social Security conditions of people in the family home to those of other people who work for others, "ruling out those differences that not only does it not respond to justified reasons, but also this group of workers is placed in a situation of particular disadvantage and, therefore, can be discriminatory. Desktop code Image for mobile, amp and app Mobile code AMP 800 code APP code In addition, the measure comes in response to the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union of February 24, 2022, which establishes the incompatibility with the regulatory system community of Social Security regulations that place domestic workers at a particular disadvantage with respect to workers and is not justified by objective factors and unrelated to any discrimination based on sex. At this point, Social Security explained that there is a clear "feminization" of the special system of employment in the family home with 95,5% of the group made up of women, 4,7% of workers who fit this system through the regime general, while 0.21% of the group is made up of men. More bonuses in quota However, the Government will use more bonuses on the contribution of domestic workers, beyond the new quotas for unemployment and salary guarantee already mentioned. On the one hand, people who have hired and registered in the general Social Security scheme have a domestic employee "will be entitled to a 20% reduction in the business contribution for common contingencies corresponding to the Special System for Domestic Employees ”. In other words, while establishing a surcharge on employees, in this case families, with the unemployment contribution and salary guarantee, it cushions with the exemption in the part of common contingencies. As an alternative to the reduction provided for in the first paragraph of the previous article, the beneficiaries will be entitled to a 45% discount on the business contribution to Social Security for common contingencies based on the characteristics of their home based on certain requirements. To access this bonus, you must maintain a net worth -of all the members of the household-, discounting the habitual residence, less than three times the stipulated equity threshold to access the minimum vital income for a cohabitation unit with the composition of the household From applicant; and the annual income of all household members must be less than three times the income guaranteed by the IMV. MORE INFORMATION The Government has set up a triple contribution increase for high-income earners by 2023 Finally, this bonus will be 30% of the business contribution to the contribution for common contingencies corresponding to the special system for domestic employees if they meet the equity requirement, the annual income of all members of the household is between three times higher and less than four times the income guaranteed by the minimum vital income. A norm with a deficit On the other hand, and according to the figures that the Government carries in the normative impact report of the royal decree law, it is expected to collect 211 million in the least favorable scenario and 242,7 million in the most favorable. The spending figures, on the other hand, are 275,4 million in the most favorable scenario for the treasury and 381,8 million in the least.