Social news, labor and employment for the year 2019

The Royal decree law 28/2018, of the 28 from December, for the revaluation of public pensions and other urgent social measures, labor and employment has introduced for the year 2019 different modifications, and we want to stand out among the most important, the following:

• Social Security Quote: The maximum contribution stop to the General Social Security Regime for the year 2019 It is established on 4.070,10 euros / mes (on 2018 It was from 3.803,70 euros / mes).

• Types of contribution in the special regime for self -employed or self -employed, from 1 of January of 2019, They will be the following:

a. For common contingencies, the 28,30 %.

b. For professional contingencies, the 0,9 %, of which the 0,46 % corresponds to the contingency of temporary disability and the 0,44 to those of permanent disability, death and survival.

c. By cessation of activity, the 0,7%.

d. By professional training the 0,1 %.

• Social Security of people who develop training programs and non -work and academic practices.

Still pending development and possible modification, The RD 28/2018, has established that the realization of training practices in companies, institutions or entities included in training programs include, The realization of non -labor practices in companies and the realization of external academic practices will determine Inclusion in the Social Security System of people who perform the indicated practices, Even if they are not paid.

These practices include those carried out by both university students of official degree and master degrees, as by professional training students of higher or medium.

• Disappearance of the indefinite employment contract for entrepreneurs.

From the year 2019, The indefinite contract for entrepreneurs support disappears, whose contract could be ascribed by companies of less than 50 workers and among whose most outstanding characteristics was the possibility of establishing a proof period of 1 year.

• Conventional mandatory retirement.

It is reinstated the capacity of collective agreements to establish mandatory retirements by age, provided that the requirements established in the Workers' Statute are met

a. Be entitled to one hundred percent of the ordinary retirement pension in its contributory modality.

b. The measure must be linked to employment policy objectives expressed in the collective agreement, Improvement of employment stability for transformation of temporary contracts into indefinite, Hiring of new workers, generational relief or any others aimed at favoring the quality of employment.

• Pensions

Pensions paid by the Social Security System, In its contributory modality, as well as the passive classes of the State, They will have in the year 2019 a increase in 1,6 %.

The maximum limit established for the perception of public pensions for the year 2019 it will be 2.659,41 monthly euros.