“The ERTEs currently protect more than 200,000 people in the Canary Islands, and in the case of Lanzarote, they are an essential mechanism to assist almost 20,000 people, which represents 25.75% of the island's active population.” These are the figures that the president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote and regional deputy of the PSOE put on the table during her speech this Tuesday in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, where she defended the need to extend these Temporary Employment Regulation Files.
“These are figures of extraordinary importance and, if I may, even more so in the case of my island, where one in four people in the entire active population depends on this coverage mechanism to be able to live. For this reason, it is so important to know not only how long they are maintained, but also their amount, since any reduction would be applied to salaries that are often precarious,” she pointed out.
During her speech, María Dolores Corujo highlighted “the Spanish Government's commitment to maintaining employment by prohibiting dismissals and favoring Temporary Employment Regulation Files (ERTEs)”, compared to the “massive extinction of contracts caused by other crises”, and highlighted that this “unprecedented” situation has had an institutional response that is “also unprecedented.”
The socialist deputy for Lanzarote asked in the Regional Chamber about the agreements reached in the tripartite labor commission regarding the ERTEs by the Ministry of Labor and the social and economic agents and their effects in the Canary Islands, recalling that it is of “vital importance” to extend the protection of the ERTEs “inexcusably” until the moment when economic activity recovers.
In this sense, she added that the closure of the tourism industry “has had consequences that extend to commerce, hospitality and an entire network of activities that depend on tourism as an engine.”
