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Special Employment Centers (CEE)

Protected employment companies that promote the labor integration of people with disabilities.

Employment is an essential element to achieve the insertion in society of people with disabilities and one of the most important ways to promote their independence. Through this formula of protected work through the Special Employment Centers, this labor integration is promoted

Special Employment Centers

What is a biosimilar

These centers are companies to the extent that they are intended to participate in the market for goods and services. Its workforce will be made up of the largest number of workers with disabilities equal to or greater than 33% that the nature of the production process allows and, in any case, by 70% of it.

These centers are conceived as a means of integrating people with disabilities into the labor market, since their purpose is to provide these people with productive and paid work, appropriate to their personal characteristics and that facilitates their integration into the labor market. .

Its legal form can be varied, and it must have legal capacity and act to be an entrepreneur: commercial companies, associations, foundations, etc.

Who can work on them?

Workers who have a recognized qualification can work in a Special Employment Center. grade of DISCAPACITY equal to or greater than 33% and that, as a result, present a decrease in their work capacity at least equal to or greater than said percentage.

Those interested in working in these centers must register in the employment offices of the Community of Madrid as jobseekers.

How to create them?

Special Employment Centers

List of Special Employment Centers by registration number in the CEE Registry

EEC Listing - October 2023

Obligations of the Special Employment Centers

Annual reports

Special Employment Centers that receive grants, aid or any other type of financial compensation of any nature from any public Administration (including, therefore, bonuses in Social Security contributions for the formalization of employment contracts subject to RD 1368/1985, of July 17, which regulates the employment relationship of a special nature for disabled people who work in Special Employment Centers), must submit and deposit an annual report in the Registry of Special Employment Centers, in accordance with the provisions of article 7 of the Decree 96/1997, of July 31.

Personal and Social Adjustment Services

The special employment centers must provide, through the support units, the personal and social adjustment services required by workers with disabilities, according to their circumstances and in accordance with what is determined by regulation.

Personal and social adjustment services are understood as those that help to overcome the barriers, obstacles or difficulties that workers with disabilities in special employment centers have in the process of joining a job, as well as permanence and progression in it. Likewise, those aimed at social, cultural and sports inclusion will be included, in accordance with the provisions of article 43 of the Consolidated Text of the General Law on the rights of persons with disabilities and their social inclusion, approved by Royal Legislative Decree 1/2013, of 29 of November.

Annual accounts

Poster Special Employment Centers.

The advertising poster for the Special Employment Centers must conform to the models included in the document indicated below. In the event that the EWC receives subsidies from the Program for the Labor Inclusion of People with Disabilities in the Protected Labor Market, the model on the right must be used and it will indicate the sum of the subsidies received in the previous year expressed in euros ( €), until the requests are resolved in the following financial year, at which time it must be updated. This amount must be advertised on a removable sticker.

poster_special_centres_.pdf

The updated logo of the State Public Employment Service can be obtained at the following link:

https://www.sepe.es/HomeSepe/que-es-el-sepe/comunicacion-institucional/imagen-logotipo

(The logo that appears on the EWC advertising poster is the so-called “Government Logo with the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy with SEPE Horizontal Color.”)

How to meet these obligations

The Special Employment Centers qualified in the Community of Madrid to comply with the obligations of presenting the Annual Report, justification for the provision of personal and social adjustment Services and justification of the Annual Accounts must present, within the deadlines established for it , the next documentation:

Annual Reports and Provision of Personal and Social Adjustment Services

Information regarding the Special Employment Center

The EWCs must complete and submit the Annexes available on the website of the Community of Madrid related to the EWC Report and which will contain the following information:

Annex I. Staff of the CEE as of December 31 of the previous year.

Annex I bis. CEE template by month.

Annex II. Provisional data on the economic activity of the CEE.

Annex III. Alternative Measures approved in any CCAA or by the SEPE.

Annex IV. Social/Corporate Structure of the CEE as of December 31 of the previous year.

Annex V. Social Responsibility.

Annex VI. Labor enclaves and transit to the ordinary company.

Submission period between January 1 and February 15 of each year, both inclusive.

Information Regarding Personal and Social Adjustment Services.

The EWCs must complete the Annexes available on the Community of Madrid website regarding the provision of Personal and Social Adjustment Services and which will contain the following information:

Annex A. Professionals who provide personal and social adjustment services.

Annex B. Professionals who carry out follow-up and/or support tasks for workers in other work centers.

Annex C1. Intervention of SAPS in the labor and social sphere

Annex C2. Intervention of SAPS in the personal and family sphere

Annex D. Job promotion within the CEE.

Submission period between January 1 and February 15 of each year, both inclusive.

Memories Presentation.

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Annual accounts.

Information related to the annual accounts

The Special Employment Centers must contribute to the Registry of Special Employment Centers:

1) Copy of the documents that make up the annual accounts for the financial year:

Balance.
Profit and loss account.
Statement of changes in equity.
Statement of cash flows.
Memory.

In the case of belonging to a business group, the consolidated accounts of the Group and a declaration of the separate accounts of the Special Employment Center must also be submitted.

Likewise, it must be accredited that they have been presented in the Mercantile Registry or in the competent Registries according to the legal nature of the owner of the Center.

2) Form 200 Annual Corporate Tax Return.

3) In those companies bound by the provisions of the Consolidated Text of the Capital Companies Act, approved by Royal Legislative Decree 1/2010, of July 2, audited annual accounts.

Submission period between July 1 and September 15 of each year, both inclusive.

Presentation of the Annual Accounts

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Aid aimed at Special Employment Centers

The purpose of employment policies for workers with disabilities must be their integration, both through the special formula of protected work, through the Special Employment Centers, and in the ordinary work system, for this reason, the General Directorate of the Public Employment Service promotes the labor integration of people with disabilities through various lines of subsidies.

The Special Employment Centers have aid programs and public subsidies aimed at promoting the integration of workers with disabilities in this type of Centers.

Subsidies aimed at financing the salary cost of people with disabilities hired in the Special Employment Centers

salary cost

Description:

These grants are intended to encourage hiring, job creation or job maintenance, for those groups that have greater difficulty in accessing or staying in employment.

amount:

The salary costs of workers with disabilities who will graduate are partially subsidized, taking into account the type and degree of disability of the final recipients of this program, as well as the stability of the jobs they hold, in the following percentages of Minimum Interprofessional Salary or the proportional part according to the day worked, as indicated in the following table:

Disability with greater difficulties in accessing the labor market	Indefinite contract				Temporal agreement
	Over 45 years old		Under 45 years old
	Man	Woman	Man	Woman
	60%	60%	55%	60%	50%
Physical or sensory disability < 65%	50%				40%

The payment of the aid will be paid by means of an advance payment with exemption from guarantees of the 80 by 100 of the grant awarded. Once the justification has been reviewed, and provided that the amount granted has been justified, the payment of the 20 by 100 remaining or the reduction and/or reimbursement of the amount granted and not justified will be agreed.

Eligible Period:

It includes the months of January to December 2023.

Term:

The application submission period will remain open for 15 business days from the day following the publication of the Credit Declaration Order in the BOCM.

Start date: 26/04/2023 End date: 19/05/2023

Resolution:

The Order by which the granting or denial of the subsidy is resolved will be notified individually to the applicants.

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Subsidy to the Support Units for professional activity, within the framework of the Personal and Social Adjustment Services of the Special Employment Centers

Support Units for professional activity in Special Employment Centers

Description:

The purpose of these grants is to subsidize, within the framework of the personal and social adjustment services of the Special Employment Centers, multi-professional teams whose mission is to help overcome the barriers, obstacles, or difficulties faced by working people with disabilities with Greater insertion difficulties, contracted in the aforementioned centers, in the process of joining a job, as well as the permanence and progression in it, without neglecting the cultural, physical or rehabilitation aspects.

amount:

The amount of the subsidy is a fixed annual amount of $1.440 for each worker with a disability with greater integration difficulties, hired full-time indefinitely, or with a temporary contract of duration equal to or greater than six months. This annual amount will be reduced proportionally depending on the duration of the contracts within the eligible period, as well as depending on the working day in the event of part-time contracting, without in any case indefinite or temporary contracts whose duration results less than 6 months.

The granting of this subsidy is carried out through the competitive bidding procedure, weighing the applications admitted for processing, which will be ordered according to the assessment criteria.

The payment of the aid will be paid by means of an advance payment with exemption from guarantees of 80% of the granted subsidy. Once the justification has been reviewed, and provided that the amount granted has been justified, the payment of the remaining 100% will be made or the reduction and/or reimbursement of the amount granted and not justified will be agreed.

Eligible Period:

It includes the months of January to December 2023.

Term:

The application submission period will remain open for 15 business days from the day following the publication in the BOCM of the excerpt from the summons order.

Start date: 22/03/2023 End date: 13/04/2023

Resolution:

The Order of resolution of the call will be published in the electronic headquarters of the institutional page, www.comunidad.madrid

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