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On Wednesday of last week, representatives of cultural life gathered outside the Storting. The campaign, which had been dubbed Red Alert, demanded that the government continue with the compensation plan for the self-employed and the self-employed after November 1. The scheme was initially adopted until October.
On Friday it was clear that the scheme will continue. It was Stavanger Aftenblad who first brought up the case.
Leader Erlend Wiborg (Frp) of the Committee for Labor and Social Affairs at the Storting confirms to Dagbladet that the plan will continue, but with a reduction in the compensation rate from 80 to 60 percent.
The scheme will be adopted on November 1, he says.
Theater review: current, but weak
The decision is part of a comprehensive package of measures that has been negotiated with the government. NOK 160 million have been reserved for the November and December plan.
– Freelancers and freelancers do incredibly important work in society, but they often fall a bit between multiple chairs. This is an extraordinary and hopefully temporary situation, and then it’s important that we do what we can to facilitate, Wiborg tells Dagbladet.
– a scandal
– Very disappointing
Lighting designer and Red Alert initiator Magnus Boyd is critical of reducing the compensation rate.
– We are very happy with our action, and we are very happy that the government has listened to us and that the scheme continues. But we are very disappointed that the compensation rate is reduced by 20 percent, without facilitating earnings without loss of compensation, he tells Dagbladet.
He fears that the reduction is wide:
– Although society as a whole has begun to cautiously open up, there have been no significant changes in our industry. Everyone will feel a 20 percent reduction.
Dagbladet has presented the criticism to the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. They refer to the chairman of the Storting finance committee, Mudassar Kapur (H), who says the government will encourage activity and restructuring through a phasing out of the scheme. Read his full answer below in the case.
Intimate intensity
– as a joke
Artist and former Minister of Culture Åse Kleveland chaired the meeting in front of the Storting on Wednesday of last week. Then she was tough against the announced termination of the plan.
“Regardless, I hope that the attention that Red Alert generated will make politicians think properly about what kind of consequences this will have in the situation we are in now,” he told Dagbladet on Monday.
He emphasizes that he does not know the details of the proposal.
– We must be able to assume that a scheme is implemented that is habitable and seems reasonable, rather than start to fix the scheme in a directly negative way. There are so many who are fighting now that I think it will be like a joke.
Tighter conditions
Union leader Hans Ole Rian at Creo is also satisfied with the extension, but criticizes the reduced compensation rate. You don’t understand the reduction.
– Possibly it has something to do with the introduction of a so-called cultural life stimulation scheme, he tells Dagbladet.
Culture Minister Abid Raja (V) has previously announced that NOK 900 million will be set aside for a new incentive scheme for organizers in the cultural sector.
Rian believes it is difficult to say whether the new scheme will affect in a way that justifies reducing the degree of compensation in the compensation scheme.
– We don’t know anything about how the new scheme is entangled.
The consequence of the reduced degree of compensation will be stricter conditions for those receiving the support, believes Rian.
– It will be more difficult to pay the bills.
It highlights sound and lighting technicians at major cultural events as a particularly vulnerable group.
– Especially those who have had the biggest concerts and events as a market. Those who have performed in Oslo Spektrum, Øyafestivalen, Rockefeller. The great arenas.
Song released, then the doctor called
Answer
On September 30, Secretary of State Vegard Einan (H) told Dagbladet that the temporary income security plan for the self-employed and self-employed had been “inaccurate.”
– If so, is it appropriate to continue? Have other changes been made that could lead to a better hitting?
– The plan still has weaknesses and, therefore, the government would phase it out as of November 1 as planned. But after seeing that many freelancers are still affected by the corona epidemic and have no income, the government parties in collaboration with the FRP have agreed to continue it for the rest of the year.
Writes the head of the finance committee at the Storting, Mudassar Kapur (H), in an SMS to Dagbladet.
– By phasing out the scheme, with a reduced degree of compensation from November 1, we will encourage activity and adjustment as the labor market improves and activity in society increases.
– At the same time, we reduce the reduction against other income that you have during the benefit period, so you should pay to create more activity, in line with the government’s goals.
