Union of mutual reports on new social protection for employees of home.

-The Social security protection extends to workers in the special scheme for household employees

Spain, January 2012- the decree entered into force yesterday. As reported by Union of mutual companies, self-employed and mutual partners, the normative text equates the benefits of Social security which are domestic workers with the rest of the workers of the General regime.

Since January, the workers of the special scheme for domestic employees, will be to have covered the work accident and occupational disease, in the same terms as the workers of the General regime.

This means, as reported by the mutual, these domestic workers will have the same benefits as self-employed workers, and as in the rest of the Social Security benefits, is necessary condition for its recognition, which comply with the obligations of membership, alta and quotation.

These obligations will fall on the owner of the family home when you have employees at your service in an exclusive and permanent manner. In other cases, obliged to contribute, both for common contingencies professional contingencies, will correspond exclusively to the worker.

When the owner of the family home has failed to comply with the obligations of membership, signup or rate of the employee’s home, the economic benefits will be recognized, but responsibilities shall be required to the owner of the family home as well as those sanctions arising.

Also, the mutual has reported that the holders of the family home, at the time of the entry into force of the Decree, with employees of home in alta, or own discontinuous nature employees who are discharged, shall choose the managing body or mutual that formalize the coverage of occupational contingencies within 30 working days from of the entry into force, i.e. from yesterday.

On Union of mutual

Union of mutual is integrated in mutual Corporation, the first mutual fund group of the country by networks of service, with 324 own centres distributed throughout the country, of which 52 are located in the Valencian Community, where the mutual gives coverage to more than 400,000 employees. Workers protected by any mutual umbrella Corporation mutual, i.e. (Cesma-mutual of Andalusia and Ceuta, Ibermutuamur, Mac-mutual accident in Canaries, MC Mutual, mutual Gallega, Mutualia, Solimat and Union of mutual) could attend interchangeably, depending on their needs and proximity, any of these centres, which belong to the various mutual that make up the entity. In all Spain, mutual Corporation has nearly 380,000 associates and gives coverage to approximately 3.210.000 employees.