Brussels defends "open single contract" in Spain

The European Commissioner for Employment says that "there is an urgent need" to delve into the labor market more flexible after-reaching labor reforms launched in Spain.

The European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, László Andor, today proposed that Spain contemplates the establishment of a "single contract open" to curb the high unemployment, especially youth, and to deal definitively with labor market segmentation. The commissioner said that labor reforms launched in Spain has been of great significance and that, therefore, "there is an urgent need" to delve into the labor market flexibility.

During the inauguration of a seminar organized by the Youth Council of Spain (CJE), Andor has stressed the difficulties in labor markets where there is a job too protege, permanent contracts, against storms.

Andor has argued that the introduction of a single contract and open "maybe it's a possibility that may exist for Spain" and pointed out that it is also one of the recommendations of the European Commission, together with the need to reduce employer contributions. He also highlighted that Spain should give priority in its national budget to measures against youth unemployment and consider them as an investment and not an expense, because they are a "positive return".

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Furthermore, given the high rate of youth unemployment in Spain (57%), which, as mentioned, has a cost to the State of 16,000 million euros annually, Andor has called sooner implement the Youth Guarantee, by the European states also Spain through Entrategia Entrepreneurship and Youth Employment, are committed to providing young people finish their studies employment or training in the four months.

On the financing of this commitment, recalled that the EU has provided € 6,000 million in 2014 to develop the Youth Guarantee, of which 920 million correspond to Spain, but said that "the EU can not finance alone," this initiative, so called on the Government to "prioritize" in training budgets and boosting youth employment.

Finally, he noted that the mobility of young people to other EU countries in search of a job "is also part of the solution." Thus, although it has been shown aware of the "suspicion" that it wakes up, has opted for "improving the tools that help young people to find work in other countries."

Source Público.es