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J. M. CAMARERO / L. PALACIOS/ N. TRIGUERO
The government is negotiating with unions and business leaders how to extend the national furloughing programme (ERTEs) when the current Covid-19 scheme runs out on 30 September. On the table at a meeting between the different sides in Palma
Sport
borja gutiérrez
With a 15-million-euro overspend on the club's wage bill, Malaga’s judicial administrator, José María Muñoz, took drastic action on Monday, informing 11 players that they would be let go as part of an ERE (collective redundancy plan) filed to urgentl
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NURIA TRIGUERO
...service has 8,000 employees all over the country (310 in Malaga province) and has received nearly four million applications for unemployment benefit relating to ERTE furlough schemes brought in with the arrival of the Covid crisis. Between March and
National
LUCÍA PALACIOS
Negotiations aimed at getting the ERTE furloughing scheme extended to the end of January 2021 from the end of September were stalled this week. Ministers met with union and company leaders in Palma de Mallorca earlier this month but there is ... the cost of the ERTE scheme, and the numbers taking part so far, in order to justify its view that it needs to be less generous from now on. Neither bosses nor unions are in favour of a blanket exclusion or inclusion of certain sectors or types of
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C. MÁRQUEZ
Works to expand the health centre in San Pedro will resume in the next few weeks, according to the mayor of Marbella, Ángeles Muñoz, and the manager of the Andalusian Health Service (SAS), Miguel Ángel Guzmán, who visited the facility last week. Wo
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Tony Bryant
...centre, located in Cuesta del Tajo, the steps that lead from Calle San Miguel to the beach, will also offer an exhibition space that will address the history of Torremolinos as a tourist municipality. The scheme is part of the area's regeneration
National
LUCÍA PALACIOS
The government's ERTE furloughing scheme looks set to continue until the end of September, at least for those firms that still need it. The Minister for Work, Yolanda Díaz, said on Thursday the government had made an offer to unions and business ... representatives to extend the same eligibility as now when the current scheme runs out at the end of June. The ability to extend ERTEs would apply to firms in all sectors hit, not just those still worst affected. The minister said the same favourable terms, ... where a furloughed worker doesn't use up their jobless benefit rights while furloughed, would be maintained. Firms have called for the scheme to run until the end of the year, but it seems likely this compromise will be reached. The minister has set a
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SUR
The two-week quaratine imposed on travellers arriving in the UK from Spain and other countries with high Covid-19 incidence rates, could be reduced to ten days, say reports. According to British newspaper The Telegraph, the British government could
National
JOSÉ M. CAMARERO
The Cabinet has given the go-ahead to a huge scheme of incentives to encourage people to scrap cars over ten years old. To take advantage of the government's new vehicle replacement stimulus package, a purchaser (private individual or ... self-employed) can consider new cars up to 35,000 euros (45,000 for those with reduced mobility or those buying purely electric cars). The scheme includes traditional diesel and petrol models as well as more advanced technologies. Carbon emissions on the new
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JOSÉ LUIS PIEDRA
scheme was announced on Wednesday by Junta vice-president and minister for Tourism, Juan Marín, who indicated that the discount would apply to residents of Andalucía and on stays of a minimum of three nights in a hotel, booked through a travel agency.