2023-10-30 01:01:21
Monday, October 30, 2023, 00:01
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Domestic workers – the group is overwhelmingly made up of women – no longer have to wait for their employer to send the company certificate to Social Security electronically, a mandatory procedure when applying for unemployment benefits.
The State Public Employment Service (SEPE) warns of this development on its website. “It is no longer necessary for the owner of the family home to send the company certificate electronically,” emphasizes the public entity, “and can deliver it on paper to the domestic worker so that they can request their benefit” for unemployment.
People who have ceased to be domestic employees can request their contributory unemployment benefit by presenting, along with the application, the business certificate that their employer will give them in paper form.
In addition, they may also send it to the SEPE electronically through certific@2, a digital service to communicate data about the workers under their care.
Domestic workers have the right to unemployment when they have paid unemployment benefits for more than 360 days, like other workers. An equalization of rights introduced by Royal Decree-Law 16/2022 to improve the working conditions and Social Security of domestic workers.
A step towards gender equality
The approval of this norm has meant, according to the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy, “an effective and essential step towards the realization of gender equality in the world of work and in the effective exercise of equal rights and protection of “women before the law.”
Under this decree, unemployment contributions are mandatory for domestic workers from October 1, 2022. The contribution bases will be those corresponding to contingencies of work accidents and occupational diseases.
The applicable rate has been determined, since January of this year, as established in the corresponding General State Budget Law.
The domestic worker will be legally unemployed when her employment contract is terminated by written communication from the employer. This writing must state, “in a clear and unequivocal manner,” the employer’s desire to terminate the employment relationship, in addition to the reason why it is terminated.
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