I was not in the Moncloa (II)

Those who could read my previous article (I was not in la Moncloa) will recall that at the end it asked: what had said you you to Zapatero if they had invited to the Moncloa in the famous interview with the 37 major employers in the country? And asked them to send their views to my blog at Interempresas.net.

Many responses, which I take this opportunity to thank from here, a good portion were lighted expressions of unrest, indignation and rejection before the economic situation faced by many small businessmen and the lack of effective policies by the current Government. But many other replies stated objective aspects and suggest concrete measures that I have been induced to write a second part of the article, summarizing and systematizing some of those proposals.

On the one hand addressed issues related to labour legislation which I've synthesized in three points:

1 - Simplification of recruitment. There are too many types of contracts in response to the particular situation of the employee. This creates inequality between workers and obliges the employer to have recourse to labour consultants every time you make a hiring.

2 - Differential treatment of the causes and costs of dismissal in small enterprises. The recent reform is complex and indefinite, does not distinguish between small and large company and is still prosecuting industrial relations.

3 - Absenteeism remains a serious problem in many sectors and does not seem that the reform will solve. There is a need to make changes to the regulation of this type of incident.

Another package of suggestions affects how not, in the financial field, one of the most acute problems of many leading companies today. In this connection it proposes:

4 - Lines of public funding to SMEs may not be channeled by a financial system with pressing needs of funds. Direct allocation mechanisms across the ICO or through the creation of a specific State Agency should be promoted.

5 - The recent law against delinquency is not sufficient to tackle this serious problem. They should arbitrate more forceful action against defaulters who did not end up leaving unpunished such practices.

6 - Public administrations (and also some large companies in the real estate sector) must be paid within the maximum time that marks the new law.

There has also been a set of more general comments that could be called structural measures and that I have grouped into four areas:

7 - Elimination of subsidies. Processing is complex and the vast majority of SMEs do not have access to them. These funds could be used to lower taxes on companies. He is proposed to also eliminate public unions ' and employers ' contributions.

8 - Design of a national plan for the reorganization of sectors affected by structural problems (pre-crisis).

9 - Professionalization of the public administration. Management with business criteria for companies and public bodies. Limiting public deficits by law.

And one last point, perhaps the most important, which largely contains and synthesises good part the previous:

10 - Clearly differentiate between small and medium-sized enterprises of the large. And should have a differentiated treatment because they are very different and often conflicting realities. Both labor, such as financial or tax should have different laws. And that also happens to have clearly independent representative organizations.

This is a first Decalogue, probably incomplete, made on the basis of their comments to my previous article. If you wish to continue contributing suggestions you know, you can leave your comments at the end of this article. Thank you all for your valuable collaboration.