The self-employed urgently request the approval of the Self-Employed Support Law

The Parliamentary Group of Citizens has presented in the Congress of Deputies a bill that includes a package of measures to reform the working conditions of self-employed workers.

Once known, the National Federation of Associations of Self-Employed Workers (ATA) and the Union of Professionals and Self-Employed Workers of Madrid (UPTA) have applauded the proposal of this comprehensive Law of Support for the Self-Employed put forward by Ciudadanos and have asked the rest of the political parties to approve it as a matter of urgency.

The President of ATA, Lorenzo Amor, after meeting with the President of Ciudadanos, Albert Rivera, in the Congress of Deputies, has assured that the proposal contemplates the 90% of the demands of the self-employed and considers that these are fundamental measures that cannot wait any longer. Among these measures, the extension to one year of the flat rate of 50 euros of Social Security contributions and the contribution by days of registration instead of by month as is being done until now stand out.

Extension of the flat rate of 50 euros for Social Security and daily contributions, the highlights

According to the EFE Agency, Amor has stressed that, given that the flat rate has managed to increase the number of new self-employed workers by almost a million people, it must be expanded and strengthened, extending it to people who want to start a self-employed activity again and who cannot currently benefit from it.
ATA believes that this is a very comprehensive law and has called for its urgent approval, since the self-employed group, as a benchmark for job creation and economic recovery, cannot continue to wait for the political blockade to end. They argue that this year the growth in the number of self-employed workers will be half that of last year and a third of what it grew two years ago.
For his part, the general secretary of UPTA, Eduardo Abad, has recalled that this is a law that is born from consensus, since it has been supported by both the PSOE and the PP in the agreements they signed with Ciudadanos in exchange for their support in the investiture sessions of both parties. Abad has insisted that the self-employed will not forgive once again that the politicians do not agree on a Law that affects more than 3.2 million workers.