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The president of the platform, Gloria Arencibia, affirms that the administrations take advantage of the associative atomization in the sector. Go to download The president of the Asalautónomos platform, an organization that represents taxi employees and self-employed workers and which brings together around sixty people, denounces the passivity of the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria City Council in regulating the working hours of professionals. She affirms that one of the reasons is that professionals are associatively atomized, something that administrations take advantage of “to do absolutely nothing.” Comply with the obligatory rest The platform defends the right to have days of rest, to reduce competition and so that people can work with dignity. He states that according to reports one could earn about 28 euros more per day, and at least one could comply with the Workers' Statute and the Self-Employed Worker Law, which prohibits working more than forty hours a week, in the first case, and 1,800 per year.
In a second. He points out that the City Council has not convened the taxi table, in which the City Council, the cooperatives and the association of self-employed taxi workers, ATA, are represented. Arencibia does not know why the cooperatives, which have held a referendum among taxi drivers and in which the yes to the regulation has won, do not put enough pressure to speed up the WhatsApp Number List process in the City Council.” Youth as a cause of exclusion These are profiles that the FOESSA Foundation has been drawing for some time as disadvantaged groups, but on this occasion we must add a new one: being young, since one in three young people between 19 and 29 years old are affected by processes of social exclusion (33%), which prevents them from drawing life plans to make the transition to adult life. Another group that accumulates greater vulnerability factors is families with children.
The exclusion rate among households with children or adolescents is 35% compared to 17% when there are only adults. Therefore, having sons or daughters is penalized and the needs derived from parenting burden families and their living conditions. But mental health is one of the great revelations of this crisis since suffering from some mental health disorder or illness has multiplied by four and now reaches 19% of the Canary Islands population (more than 400,000 people). According to Cáritas, although there is still a large margin for improvement in this situation, it is necessary to improve the social protection system in the future with the following basic proposals suggested by Cáritas regional of the Canary Islands: re-promote the social public policy model as a whole; improve access channels and coverage of the Minimum Living Income; implement comprehensive and transversal policies against residential exclusion; and have public policies that provide the necessary means so that all people can overcome the digital divide.