Las propuestas del Fondo Monetario Internacional sobre nuevas reformas laborales en España. Pasen y lean… con calma. bit.ly/1oXjIFO 2014 ARTICLE IV CONSULTATION—STAFF REPORT; STAFF SUPPLEMENT; PRESS RELEASE; AND STATEMENT BY THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR SPAIN. July 2014. “25. While much has been done to improve the labor market, more action is needed to further boost employment and reduce duality. Lowering the fiscal and regulatory cost of employing people, especially on permanent contracts and the low skilled, would boost employment, as would allowing firms to better tailor their working conditions to their specific circumstances. This suggests: -- Further decentralizing wage setting. To enhance job protection and creation, consideration could be given to further enhancing the ability of individual firms to adapt working conditions (especially wages and hours) to their specific conditions. This would better align productivity to wages, help struggling firms stay in business, and encourage new firms to start up. Options in this regard include further facilitating opt-outs by firms, similarly to what Germany did in the 1990s. It could also include extending collective agreements only to sectors only where unions/business associations signing the agreement represent a majority of workers and/or increasing the number of employees for a firm to be automatically covered (e.g. Finland, Italy), thus assisting SMEs. -- Cutting employer social security contributions for the low paid. These taxes are among the highest in Europe and could be a major constraint on labor demand, especially for the low skilled. The fiscal cost could be offset by broader tax reform (see Section F). -- Reducing duality by making hiring on permanent contracts more attractive. This can be achieved, for example, by increasing dismissal costs for new permanent contracts gradually with tenure and from a lower initial level (severance payments for permanent contracts remain above the OECD average). It would also be less costly to the budget than subsidizing permanent contracts. -- Improving active labor market policies to improve the skills of the unemployed and to help them find work. To a large extent this means implementing aggressively the new employment strategy (including for youth unemployment), especially by regions. For example, implementing plans to more widely use private job placement agencies, improving training services, including by opening them up to competition, and establishing a single portal for job vacancies throughout Spain”.
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