[Trending News] Lorenzo Amor, President of Ata: “If the Government paid the decline from the fourth day, we would end the absenteeism in Spain” | The mail

– What objectives are marked for this new stage in ATA?

–It gets a lot to do. The self -employed in Spain are still second citizens and my great objective for this legislature is to end once and for all with this. Although we will bet on dialogue and agreement, ATA will continue to be a claiming organization, which has to work because the self -employed cease to be second citizens.

– Why do you think they are second citizens?

–Primero, we are second with the rest of European neighbors, because we are the only country where entrepreneurs are not helped eliminating VAT or with franchisee VAT, as all European Union countries have. The big problem of self -employed at this time is the large number of obstacles and procedures that are supporting and having to make a VAT declaration four times a year is a lock, it is a cost for the autonomous. And second, because an autonomous with 52 years does not have a subsidy like a salaried worker. This is inadmissible.

– There will be other elections within the employer, those of Cepyme, which come loaded with controversy and reproaches. How is this war living from within the CEOE?

– It is inexplicable what has happened in Cepyme in recent times, because a president who wants to be president cannot skip the statutes based on his interests. The Statutes of CEOE are very clear and are to fulfill them. And someone who does not meet the statutes is portrayed. I really respect Gerardo, but I think that the best thing he can do is call elections and withdraw what was approved the other day illegally. [Se refiere al nuevo sistema electoral que elimina la delegación de votos.]

– Are you delegitimized crow to appear again?

– I think I have been very clear.

– Do you consider that your presidency candidacy must withdraw?

– I hope it does not appear.

–The is replicating in the CEOE what happens in Congress and that its president Garamendi reproaches. Are you not damaging the image of the employer?

– It is evident that it is very unfair to get these things out, but everyone plays their cards as they want. I, of course, I can say that until Monday, one day before the Board of Directors, I have been working so that Gerardo has an exit from the honorable organization. The problem is that some have ended up disappointed. I have ended up disappointed with Gerardo. I say it clearly.

–We put aside the internal battle inside the CEOE and move on to another political battle: the reduction of the day. Do you have confidence that Congress does not approve it?

–The reduction of day as it is raised is the lace for the hundreds of thousands of freelancers with workers and small businesses. It has a very beautiful slogan, “work less to live better,” charging the same, but we forget that you have to pay it and that who pays it is the self -employed and the small businesses that already go with the language outside. Therefore, I not only hope, we will work so that Congress does not endorse it.

– Does the new record of day, digital, objective and remote preocup so much or more than the day?

– We are worried about everything that is obstacles. I would love to be, just like a record of day, a registry of labor casualties. Because if there are 3% of entrepreneurs who do not pay the overtime, I am not going to tell you the number of people who do not go to their job daily with a false absenteeism.

– Do you think the government is not doing enough to combat the high absenteeism?

-No. It is denounced by mutuals, it is denounced by everyone and it costs us 24,000 million euros a year only to companies. The government has it very easy: it would suffice that the government paid the decline from the fourth day and would realize how absenteeism was going to control. If the government paid the fourth day, I am sure we would end the problem of absenteeism in Spain. [Las empresas pagan la prestación por baja desde el cuarto día hasta el 15 y la Seguridad Social se hace cargo a partir del día 16.]

–The CEOE asks for companies to stop complementing the salary during the low period. Do you agree?

– Evidently, if this is a brutal cost for companies, but also for the Spanish economy.

– Another of big problems is the lack of labor.

–It is very concentrated in certain sectors, but we continue to have problems finding workers in transport, construction, hospitality and trade.

–The quota regularization process has already begun. The majority of self -employed or stay the same or come out to return. In the end, has the new real -income contribution system for the collective be beneficial?

–The system or becomes agile or fail. We cannot regularize the two years of having finished.

– Will a new upload of quotas for the following 2026 and years be negotiated? Touch now get to it …

– We will not accept it. What the Government has to do is extend this year's quota table due to the impossibility of taking an objective balance of the system.