CEPES remember that all of the social economy in 2012 has created more than 20,000 new jobs and new companies created 2011
The Social Economy Employers expected in the parliamentary process correcting these important negative discrimination towards this business model
(Madrid, June 11, 2013). The Government is committed to CEPES to analyze and resolve negative discrimination of Social Economy enterprises in the Draft Law on Entrepreneurs. This has evolved today following talks between President of Employers of Social Economy, Juan Antonio Pedreño, and the Minister for Employment, Fátima Báñez during the presentation of the Draft Law in Moncloa.
CEPES President has raised a number of corrections to this important Bill, aimed at entrepreneurs, in order to solve negative discrimination towards collective self-employment Social Economy themselves mainly to cooperatives.
All the articles of the Draft is regulated individually for self-employment andcapital companies, ignoring the existence of other legal forms such as cooperatives. Furthermore, Pedreño "missing the absence of provisions of social, in particular to promote self-employment among people with disabilities."
Pedreño said that "this rule should apply to all professional and business activities to be implemented by entrepreneurs, individually or collectively, regardless of the business formula adopted".
That is why after discussions with Minister Fátima Báñez, this morning, the president of CEPES expected in the parliamentary process of this law everything is solved. The Employers of Social Economy amendments send a report to the government and political parties in the coming days to enrich thearticles of the law and that this law works for all entrepreneurs.
CEPES remember that in 2012 the social economy created more than 2,000 new businesses and 20,000 new jobs. These data have to add hundreds of jobs saved through retrofits of commercial companies in crisis cooperatives. According to sources in the Spanish Confederation of Worker Cooperatives (COCETA) in the past year have occurred in Spain 75 transformations of commercial companies into cooperatives.
All these arguments are shared by the Economic and Social Council in its opinion adopted on yesterday, it also misses on taxation, tax incentives contained in Part II are extended to Social Economy enterprises, mainly cooperatives.
