Moved Permanently

The home employees carry out their work without the network that protects the other workers. Miserable wages, variable days and impossibility to acquire unemployment characterize the day to day of this group, that mainly subsists in the submerged economy.

The Government completes a law so that the charwomen compare their conditions of work to those of the rest of employees in exchange for lifting the quote, a minimum of five Euros to the month. The measurement also tries to professionalize the sector, that employs 600,000 people and whom every time major has demands.

To have a bricklayer or a plumber although is during half an hour requires the payment of taxes. However, so that a domestic employee works 19 hours to the week in an address does not make lack pay nor a Euro to the Social Security. She is only one of the many peculiarities that surround the work remunerated in the home, an activity more and more demanded which 600,000 people in Spain carry out, women in his immense majority. They are official estimations and of experts of the sector, because in the registries of the Social Security they appear 300,000 subscribers less than.

The archaic norm that regulates to this group and the lack of professionalisation causes the jump to the submerged economy. The employers are only forced to pay by them if they work in the same house more than 20 hours to the week. When the worker goes to several addresses - most habitual she is whom she must pay 146 Euros to the month in case of surpassing the 18 weekly hours. The rest of situations remains in the legal limb.

In order to eradicate these anomalies, the Government will eliminate gradually, in seven or eight years, the special regime by which quotes the home employees. All will end up take refuging in the general regime and, therefore, they will accede to the Statute of the Workers, del who now escape. “There will be an identity in the types of quotes, in the bases and in the benefits”, it explains the Secretary of State of Social Security, Distinguished Octavio.