The Secretary of State for Social Security, Borja Suárez, does not exclude that carriers can benefit from the new coefficients reducing the retirement age that the government wants to approve, thus opening the door to compliance with the requirement for which unions have repeatedly called for strikes. days in the area from late October until just before Christmas.
During a meeting with the media, during which he also indicated that next Monday the dialogue table would be formed to reformulate temporary incapacity (TI), the Secretary of State responded thus after being asked if this new procedure for establishing the activities early retirements which could be authorized – those which involve “difficulties and dangers” – could benefit road transport professionals.
With the framework remains to be defined As part of negotiations between the Ministry of Social Security and employers in the sector, the CCOO and UGT unions called yesterday for seven days of strike (October 28, November 11, 28 and 29 and December 5, 9 and 23) in the freight transport sector. and passengers (also urban) to which could be added half a million drivers and which will be indefinite from the last date if there is no agreement.
A few weeks ago, the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration signed an agreement with social agents which will involve, among other things, a modification of the general social security law for the creation of a new procedure for recognizing reducing coefficients of the retirement age which will be applied in activities presenting high levels of arduousness, toxicity, danger or unsanitary conditions. The objective circumstances will be determined based on indicators such as the incidence, persistence and duration of work stoppage processes, as well as declarations of permanent disability and death.
According to Suárez, the new model for recognizing these reducing coefficients must be “operational” and used to “resolve this type of complaints” like those of carriers.
In this sense, the unions recalled yesterday that “the exercise of the profession [de transportista] causes an average of 120 deaths per year, all disguised as road accidents”, of which “two thirds were over 55 years old”, emphasizing that the age factor is “determining in car driving”.
