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The new Corona measures that the canton announced on Friday for Basel-Stadt weigh heavily on those affected: it looks bleak, especially for the restaurant and hotel industry, but also for tour and bus operators, showmen and women. .
In parallel to the partial blockade, an aid package was launched; Affected businesses can apply for help through a compassionate use program. The Department of Economic, Social and Environmental Affairs of the city of Basel contributes 15 million and the federal government contributes 7.5 million more. But is that enough?
“We assume that these measures will help many companies. But in individual cases there may also be some for which this support program is not enough ”, Ivica Perkovic, Head of Finance and Control, told the“ Basler Zeitung ”.
“The package of measures is not close enough”
Basler Wirteverband Chairman Maurus Ebneter has a completely different opinion: “The current package of measures is not close enough. The additional damage caused by the blockade amounts to about 30 million Swiss francs. ‘ Furthermore, the government’s reference to the support program is inadmissible because the funds were discussed in September when the lockdown was not yet foreseeable, says Ebneter.
Regardless of this, the association becomes a File a constitutional complaint against the government. One would like clarification on the question of whether partial closure is in accordance with the rule of law.
Ebneter wants to fight for the trade: “We demand immediate help, it can certainly be called compensation. Austria shows how it can be done easily: meterit is an immediate payment of up to 80 percent of the sales of the previous year in the same period ”, the newspaper quotes.
Sample calculation aid package
The Basel-Stadt government plans differently. So the scope of the claim of the Accident insurance wages for 2019 depend on. Everyone receives at least 2.3 percent of this. The higher the fixed costs in an industry, the higher the percentage.
In a fictitious example, the Perkovic calculates the BaZ, a particular hotel has 50 employees and a UVG salary bill of 2.5 million francs. As an accommodation facility, the hotel has 1,8 percent a. Therefore, he will receive 102,500 francs in support. If the company also meets the federal government’s hardship requirements, an additional 51,250 francs is added.
And if the federal government continues to increase its share, as announced, the aid contribution to Basel residents could increase even further.
«But we also make sure that a business is no better with support services than without Corona.»explains Perkovic.
The remaining funds will be shared among the companies whose applications have been approved.
“The despair is enormous”
The question remains whether this mini-lock is really justified. The opinions of government and industry clearly differ. Ebneter would like to work with him Constitutional complaint Making the wave of bankruptcies that he sees rolling to companies stop: “The great wave of bankruptcies can be stopped if the authorities react quickly. Now we have to save the wide midfield. We defend ourselves from the violent destruction of structures, from the threat of mass unemployment. Half of the 8,000 jobs in Basel’s hotel industry are in grave danger. You have to understand: the situation is much more threatening than in spring»Said the president.
Also, that would come Insurance benefits that would have helped many at that time are no longer available and reserves and mattresses are depleted: The despair is enormous. Whenever we get up a little, we go up to another on the roof.
