Extraordinary measures regarding unemployment protection

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Article 8. Extraordinary measures regarding unemployment protection.

2. Companies affected by the extensions regulated in article 1 and those that are applying a temporary employment regulation file based on article 23 of Royal Decree-Law 8/2020, of March 17, on the date of entry into force of this standard, They must formulate a new collective application for unemployment benefits, in the terms regulated in the previous paragraph, before October 20, 2020.

Companies that decide to totally and definitively renounce the temporary employment regulation file must also make the aforementioned communication.

3. In the case of temporary employment regulation procedures for the causes provided for in article 23 of Royal Decree Law 8/2020, of March 17, in which the business decision is communicated to the Labor Authority after the entry into force of this Royal Decree-Law, the company must make a collective application for unemployment benefits, on behalf of the workers, in the model established for this purpose on the website or electronic headquarters of the SEPE. The deadline for submitting this application will be that established in article 268 of the revised text of the General Social Security Law.

The duration of the recognized benefit will last until January 31, 2021.

4. The amount of unemployment benefit recognized to workers affected by the procedures for suspension of contracts and reduction of working hours referred to in this royal decree-law, will be determined by applying, to the regulatory basis of the employment relationship affected by the file , the percentage of 70 percent until January 31, 2021.

5. In the cases provided for in sections 1 and 2, for the purposes of regularization of unemployment benefits, when periods of activity and inactivity alternate during a calendar month, as well as in the cases of reduction of the usual working day, and in the cases in which both days of inactivity and days in reduction of working hours are combined, the company must communicate to the expired month, through the communication of periods of activity of the certific @ 2 application, the information on the days worked in the previous calendar month.

Unemployment benefits enjoyed during the proceedings referred to in section 1 of this article by those who access a new right, before January 1, 2022, as a consequence of the termination of a new right, will not be computed at any time as consumed. fixed-term contract or dismissal, individual or collective, for economic, technical, organizational or production reasons, or dismissal for any cause declared inadmissible.