“With the Government of Pedro Sánchez there are 2,000 fewer unemployed in Melilla and more affiliation to Social Security than when the PP governed and, thanks to the labor reform approved by this Executive, indefinite hiring has gone from 8% to 40%.”
The Delegate of the Government, Sabrina Moh, in an interview granted to Television Melilla, has addressed the economic and labor situation of the city, and the evolution that has taken place in recent years.
“The other day, the local President, Juan José Imbroda, in taking stock of this year of Popular Party government, said that there have been a thousand people who have returned to Melilla. It strikes me that, every time we give the unemployment data and there is a drop in unemployment, from the PP they say that it is a lie and that it is because there were fewer people in Melilla and that, that is why unemployment fell, but when he has been interested in giving his data, he points out that there are a thousand more people”, he said.
However, the head of the Government Delegation wanted to highlight that it is a reality that since Pedro Sánchez is in La Moncloa, Melilla has many fewer unemployed and more affiliation to Social Security than when Rajoy was governing throughout the country and Imbroda in the City. “These are real data, tangible data and, therefore, we want to continue working so that unemployment figures continue to fall,” he said.
With regard to job stability, Sabrina Moh has defended the policies that have been pursued by the National Executive in favor of stable and quality jobs. “We have gone from 8% indefinite hiring to 40% indefinite hiring. This is a good thing for Melilla and this is a good thing for the citizens of Melilla and for the workers themselves who have seen their contracts transformed into indefinite”, he said.
In connection with this issue, he referred to the system of direct bonuses for social security contributions that will enter into force in November and that will apply to indefinite contracts and to the replacements of workers who are on leave but not to precarious contracts.
“When we approached the bonus system with the employers, we told them beforehand that the only thing that was not contemplated is the temporary contracts, because we cannot go against a rule at the state level,” he explained in reference to the Labor Reform, which as he recalled, in the negotiations maintained by the Ministry of Labor to make this rule were both the unions and the employers with whom an agreement was reached.
“Whatever it is to encourage precarious work will be that we go back to the past. The PP yearns for the past, always likes to go back to the past, never look to the future and what I was asking for was to go back to precarious contracts again,” he lamented.
Bass replacement
“Temporary contracts are not going to be rewarded, for that there is another figure such as the fixed discontinuous, which can be used for certain times when the same worker is going to give a service at one time because there is a greater volume of work and does not have to do it in another period,” he said.
Another issue, he has clarified, are the temporary contracts that come for a replacement of a worker who is going down. “This is a situation that has come to an end, and that does take into account,” he said.
With regard to the validity until 2026, the Delegate of the Government explained that this decision has been taken because it is precisely the validity of the Integral Plan of Socioeconomic Development of Melilla and that, in it, the possibility of studying a regulatory modification that improves the current system of hiring bonuses is included. “During this time we will have to study the possibilities that Melilla has so that it remains attractive, if we continue with this form of bonus, if there is one that can be better or what is going to be done,” he said, and recalled that the Integral Plan itself highlights bonuses as a strong point of the city.
Transport goods
Continuing with economic issues, in another order of things, during the televised interview, Moh has been asked about the Royal Decree of Bonus to the Transport of Goods, after the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility has begun the procedure to grant compensation to maritime and air transport of goods, with origin or destination in Melilla.
“This is a historical demand, which we have been working on since we came to the Government, which is already published in the Official State Gazette (BOE), so it is already a reality and entrepreneurs can start asking for this aid”, he said, and recalled that it has taken a lot of work because it has been implemented from scratch, in collaboration with the sister city of Ceuta.
On the budget allocation, Moh has made it clear that “we are studying that, if it were necessary to extend this item, it could also be done”, so he has shown his desire to benefit the business sector.
To this issue, the Delegate also recalled that this Government has responded to many other historical demands, such as the removal of the tachograph, “which was an issue that entrepreneurs have been asking for for many years” and that “it meant changing a regulation at European level, so it was not an easy job, and this Government has done it”.