The Ministry of Social Security is developing the draft royal decree with which it plans to regulate access to the new early retirement in the most dangerous, arduous, toxic or unhealthy professions. The coefficients which will be defined in a future regulation will shorten the retirement age interested parties: employees, self-employed workers and public sector workers. Over the coming months, the Administration must prepare a series of reports so that four ministries can elect the sectors that can choose to retire from age 52as is the case for miners, aircrew or maritime workers.
The responsible minister, Elma Saiz, must appoint, within three months from the publication of the decree, the representatives of four ministries who will be part of the so-called Evaluation Commission: the Social Security portfolios, Labor, Civil Service and Finance, accompanied by members of social agents, they must face the flood of anticipated requests in the text itself.
The group will receive a series of reports on impact of the physical or psychological demands of each profession on morbidity or accident ratesas well as the consequences caused by these jobs carried out by employees, self-employed people and also in the public sector. The standard thus distinguishes between jobs with high mortality after a certain age and those which produce these effects at the expense of age.
Recognition of early retirement from age 52 already applies to various working groups, such as mining workers, aerial work flight crew, railway employees, bullfighting artists, public firefighters, members of police forces such as the Ertzaintza, the local police, the Mossos. d’Esquadra and the Navarre Foral Police.
Several professional groups, such as housekeepers – called “kellys” –, caregivers or professional drivers were present during the months of negotiations as possible sectors which could join the nine who are already opting for early retirement and will benefit from the reduced benefits. retirement age, an advance which will determine a regulation planned for its development next year.
It will not be a “silver bridge”
Regardless, it is important to emphasize that the new early retirement will not be a generality. The procedure must begin with the request and justification of the objective circumstances by economic and trade union organizations in the case of employees and self-employed people. In the public service, the most representative union will be the one that must submit the request and the related reports. Even if Social Security can act ex officio at the request of certain parties, it explains the rule to which it had access elEconomista.es.
The regulation of reducing coefficients prepared by the Ministry of Social Security will probably include various advances according to the impact of danger, arduousness, toxicity or unsanitary conditions in each sectoras well as objective indicators on victims or mortality. It will not be a bridge of money to the mass retirement of thousands of workers before the age of 65 or 67. The Executive will have one year from approval of the decree to develop this regulation, which will be revised every ten years.
The beneficiary must demonstrate a minimum period of activity in the sector and will only be able to access early retirement if he cannot be reclassified to an alternative position. It will therefore not be a free pass for all workers in sectors which have the door open to the early modality from the age of 52 minimum.
To cover the cost, the worker and the company will have to additional social contribution which compensates for the years in advance “in order to maintain the financial balance of the system”. Social Security considers that the adjustments made to social contributions for common contingencies (which will be specific to each group) are sufficient for the reform to have a neutral impact and should not be financed by taxes or other elements.
They only project a administrative costs of 163,739 euros arising from the processing of the “high” number of pending applications within tight deadlines, according to the economic report which accompanies the draft royal decree.
The text leaves pending an analysis of the groups which already benefit from early retirement, a selection of sectors which have created abnormal situations: there are the Mossos, but not the National Police nor the Civil Guard; Firefighters and railway workers in the private sector are also excluded, not their public sector peers. The decree does not speak of average life expectancy after retirement, an element that actuaries consider essential in determining the increase in contributions during working life.
