MADRID .- The Minister of Labour and Immigration, Valeriano Gómez, has announced that after the expiry of the year and a half to give the Government to regularize employment voluntarily submerged, the penalties will increase "Significantly."
After the press conference of the Council of Ministers, which approved the bill on pension reform, Gomez said that after this 'grace period' (June 2011 to December 2012), where the government will give "incentives" for companies and workers rectify malpractice, sanctions will harden in most cases.
"What we aim is to open a period as possible to regularize the situation voluntarily (irregular employment) and that the State help it. After that period, some behavior must be punished in a more intense, "said Gomez, who denied that it is a sort of 'amnesty' to regularize their status violators in exchange for avoiding sanctions.
"More control, more sanctions on those who fail," he reiterated Gómez, recalling that currently existing fines for those workers who are receiving unemployment benefits and at the same time, working irregularly. So he said that each year 250,000 records open to employees for violating this rule.
The owner said that incentives be adopted by the Government to facilitate the voluntary adjustment relate to, among other things, time for the debts accumulated by companies can be paid with the greatest potential.
While admitting that there are already delays in payment of debts, said the government can "help them last longer, and lighten the guarantees to be submitted by firms to benefit from such postponement .
Gómez eluded go into more detail, as the Executive's intention is to move undeclared plan to employers and unions to negotiate the details of it, although he said his department already has "very advanced", with a twofold intent: to improve the sustainability of systems social protection and ensure decent work.
Finally, said it was "difficult" to estimate how undeclared work may extend, and re-emphasized that, according to various studies, the underground economy in Spain is between 15% and 25% of GDP , in line with other countries of Central and Northern Europe.
"Undeclared work is a common phenomenon across Europe," he said Gomez, recalling that in order to emerge undeclared is common in the whole EU, hence the inclusion in the "Pact of the Euro ' .
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