The Extremadura Plan for SMEs and Autonomous

Labor conciliation is a serious problem that not only has an impact on the labor market conditioning the Labor availability. It also has repercussions at demographic and economic level.

The Board of Extremadura has launched A new call to support SMEs and the freelancers of the region. It is an economic aid of 2,500 euros for each worker who is allowed to telework or dispose of a flexible schedule to reconcile work with the care of dependent children or relatives.

Conditions to access help. This initiative is part of the Extremadura Autonomous Employment Plan And it seeks to “promote the digital transformation and the conciliation of working and personal life in SMEs and among the self -employed,” according to the official text of the Board.

The SMEs and freelancers who have their fiscal domicile in Extremadura may request this help, which have a maximum of 250 employees and whose annual business volume does not exceed 50 million euros or their annual balance does not exceed 43 million euros. With this measure, the Board joins the initiatives on teleworking and conciliation that other communities have already launched Like Madrid.

In addition, it is mandatory that benefited workers have been hired in the company before the request for aid. The amount of the subsidy will be 2,500 euros for each worker who passes to teleworking or having flexible schedule, for a maximum of 10 workers per company and with a maximum limit of 10,000 euros per company.

Teleworking or flexibility. “One of the main challenges today is that labor demands, such as long days, rigid schedules or lack of flexibility, make people difficult to meet their family responsibilities, such as caring for children, the elderly or people with disabilities,” says the Board in its specifications.

Therefore, the call establishes its priority in Teleworking models and time flexibility that allows workers to adapt the schedules of their day to Family care needs. One of the requirements is that at least 30% of the weekly working hours must be made and that the flexible modality must imply a real adaptation of the schedules To facilitate conciliation. According to the published decree, “the company must prove that it has effectively implemented teleworking or flexible schedule for at least a year after the granting of aid.”

Less stress, more productivity. Conciliation measures directly affect to workers’ stress And, as a consequence, other aspects such as the improvement of productivity and commitment to companies are improved.

From the Board of Extremadura it is ensured that the measure “not only benefits people, who can experience a better quality of life, lower stress and greater job satisfaction, but also has advantages for organizations, such as greater productivity, lower staff rotation and a healthier work environment”

Against the precariousness of women. Women are the most affected by the precariousness induced by family reconciliation. According to INE datathe percentage of men with more than one child who worked was 90.4%, compared to their female peers registered 71.8%.

Hence the need to favor conciliation in self -employed and SMEs and that these “contribute to reducing gender inequalities, since most of the time it is women who face greater difficulties,” abounds the brochure of the call.

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