The Canary Islands Government have announced that they expect to have paid all the bonus payments to those people in ERTE who do not manage to collect the ‘minimum inter-professional salary’ of 950 euros, by the end of September. This is the forecast of the Ministry of Economy and Employment, according to the Deputy Minister of Employment, Gustavo Santana, to comply with the Executive Decree-Law, which has been validated this week unanimously by the plenary session of the regional Parliament.
According to their calculations, 51,000 people will benefit from this bonus payment that ranges between 300 euros and 1,100 euros, depending on the ERTE amount that you have received per month up until the end of June when this aid was decreed.
To receive this payment, workers don’t have to do any paperwork or request it, the regional government is organising it directly with SEPE and has arranged a fund of 30 million euros that is being financed by the European recovery funds, React.
According to Gustavo Santana, the Canary Foundation for the Promotion of Work (Funcatra) has been designated as the entity for the management of this incentive, and are processing the data of thousands of beneficiaries in collaboration with SEPE who have been in charge of ETRTE payments, and insist that the aid be paid "in the shortest possible time to all eligible workers by the end of September at the latest".
This date is important, as not only is it the end of the current ERTE period, but also the decree-law for this aid was published in the Official Gazette of Canary Islands (BOC) on June 30th, which stated that it must be settled within a period of three months.
The amount of the subsidy, which will be made in a single payment, varies according to what each worker has received as follows:
- 1,100 euros to those who have received less than 395.50 euros per month in ERTE.
- 550 euros to those who have received between 395.50 euros and 560 euros per month in ERTE.
- 300 euros to those who have received between560 euros and up to 950 euros per month in ERTE.
The lower bracket will be the first to be paid, as decided by the Governing Council when it approved the decree-law at the end of June. Around 40,000 workers in the Canary Islands continue to be affected by an employment regulation file on the islands, according to the Ministry of Social Security, even though 51,000 will receive payment.
