In this regard, the Spanish Minister for Employment made a commitment to maintain fluid dialogue with the self-employed workers' unions and to coordinate with the other ministries and administration services in order to come up with specific measures in various areas aimed at improving the situation for self-employed workers. Furthermore, she also reminded them that the labour reform and the future Support for Entrepreneurs Act will contain specific measures to foster self-employed work and the entrepreneurial culture.
Fátima Báñez will soon meet with the other associations that represent the interests of self-employed workers, and which have already requested a meeting with the minister, in order to tackle the situation and the problems being experienced by their members. The Minister for Employment and Social Security will work with them to establish a road map aimed at dealing with, among other things, those issues that may improve their access to financing and eliminate bureaucratic barriers and obstacles to entrepreneurial activity.
The meeting was held at the headquarters of the Ministry of Employment and Social Security and was attended on behalf of the Spanish Government by the State Secretary for Employment, Engracia Hidalgo, and the Director-General for Self-Employed Work, the Social Economy and Corporate Social Responsibility, Miguel Ángel García Martín, as well as the Minister for Employment and Social Security, Fátima Báñez. On behalf of the self-employed workers' unions, the meeting was attended by the Chairman of ATA, Lorenzo Amor, the Chairman of UPTA, Sebastián Reyna, and the Chairman of CEAT, Pedro Barato.