The new law promoting self-employment: looking for «El Dorado»

Abstract

Parliamentary procedure of the Royal Decree-Law 4/2013 has culminated with the Law 11/2013. This process has gone unnoticed, so that, read in detail, and isolated in an understanding, the law would have little legal social content labour and novel, offering if perhaps some technical improvements, clarifying or regulatory touch that, in our opinion in no way justify the cost of the procedure of transformation into law. If, as is to be expected, we already knew that was going to dictate a new royal decree-law of «re-reforms», the Royal Decree-Law 11/2013, almost better would have been to incorporate these finishing touches in a handful of additional provisions in the royal decree-law, so at least we would have saved a new law and bland, pending approval of the «true» law of entrepreneurs, what has happened to the Law 14/2013.

However, certain recent developments, both legal and socio-economic, have been given a greater hot news and importance to some of the developments of the law, so that their knowledge shows a greater interest to lawyers, consultants and business managers. Issues such as the scope of the implementation of the so-called «social rate flat» for the self-employed, or the range of the increases and reductions planned to encourage the hiring, which extend to the business users or customers of the companies of temporary work, among others, have renewed aspects of interest and relevance to well deserve a comment stopped by its importance and labour troubles. We account for all this, in detail, in this study, exposing problems and pointing solutions.