Amor (ATA) rejects the “cut in rights” proposed by Social Security with the active retirement of the self-employed

The president of ATA, Lorenzo Amor, has described as a “cutting of rights” the proposal that the Ministry of Social Security has put forward to unions and employers in relation to the active retirement of the self-employed. The draft that the Government has sent to the social dialogue, to which elEconomista.es has had access, reduces the amount of pension that can be made compatible with work. In the specific case of self-employed workers with dependent employees, eliminates the possibility of receiving 100% of the pension combined with activity.

“The Government, with the proposal it presented yesterday, cuts the rights of the self-employed,” Amor denounced during a press conference to present the ‘Self-employed Situation Barometer’ April 2024.

Self-employed workers with a dependent employee, according to the Law in force on October 26, 2017, can combine 100% of their retirement pension and the income they receive from their professional activity, part-time or full-time. amount will be 100%.

For love, in line with the positions of the UGT and CCOO unionsthe proposal presented yesterday by the Ministry of Social Security during the social dialogue table on pensions represents a “cut”, since it will eliminate “the additional bonus that self-employed workers had who maintained the criterion of reaching 100%”, so self-employed workers are forced to extend their retirement five or more years to collect 100% of their pension in the active retirement modality. “Practically until they were 71 or 72 years old,” Amor laments.

The president of ATA has stressed that it was already “an obstacle” to wait a year to be able to access active retirement in the case of the self-employed, but this new Social Security proposal “is a cut in rights.” “This is not progress, nor is it typical of a progressive Government. This is a reduction in rights,” Amor stressed.

The unions UGT and CCOO denounced this Monday, after the social dialogue table with Social Security, “very little progress” in relation to the negotiations to make employment and pension compatible, highlighting that the proposal presented by Social Security in relation to partial retirement is is “very far” from union expectations and “cuts rights.”