Government wants return of subsidies by twelfths

The Government, in its programme, puts forward the idea that the subsidies that workers receive, 13th and 14th (holidays and Christmas), can be paid in twelfths. “Each worker must once again have the prerogative to choose how they want their subsidies (13th and 14th months) to be paid: in full at two times a year or in twelfths, that is, spread over the 12 months of the year.”

It had also been mentioned by the Government, but the creation of the Work Incentive Benefit is included in the programme for the legislature, “allowing the accumulation of income from work with social support, which encourages active participation in the labour market”.

The idea is to replace social support, “without any loss to anyone”, with a supplement, which can be combined with income from work, RSI, social pension, or other social support aimed at extreme social situations, which mitigates the impoverishment of employed workers and encourages their active participation in the job market, and which takes into account the size and composition of the household. In other words, what the Government has said is that it intends to benefit employment, so that no one can earn more in subsidies.

The idea is to create a work subsidy enshrined in a single social support, in “full coordination with the minimum existence of the IRS, and financed by the consolidation in this provision of the myriad of dispersed social supports”.

It also wants to review the social protection system in the event of unemployment, “in order to make it fairer and more transparent, encouraging rapid re-entry into the job market”. It does not say how.

And it also wants to “introduce part-time retirement mechanisms that allow for an extended working life”, allowing for the accumulation of income from work and pensions.

In the area of ​​work, it once again establishes the objective of setting the national minimum wage at 1,100 euros by 2029 and “creating conditions for the average wage to rise to 2,000 euros by the end of this decade”.