If you do not have the possibility of working full-time or you are not interested, you have the possibility of trying to find a job through a part-time contract. If you choose this alternative, you will be interested in knowing how much you contribute per half-day to Social Security, an important piece of information, since it will influence the future benefits you will receive, such as unemployment benefits or retirement pensions.
A part-time or part-time contract is one regulated by the Workers’ Statute, which establishes that the number of hours an employee will work during their day is less than a full working day. Thus, given that a full day is established at a maximum of 40 hours, a half-time contract is understood to be one in which a smaller number of hours are worked, usually around half.
It is necessary to remember that these workers have the same rights as a full-time worker, although logically they will enjoy a lower salary and a smaller number of vacation days, as these are proportional to the number of hours worked. Furthermore, since 2018, part-time contributions are counted as a whole day in order to obtain the right to receive unemployment benefits.
Quote for half a day of work
Since October 1, 2023, the part-time contract has been equated with the full-time contract for the purposes of calculating Social Security contribution periods. In this way, as we have mentioned, it will be understood that a full day of contributions has been made to recognize your future access to benefits such as retirement pension or absolute permanent disability pension, among others.
The measure affects all part-time workers in the same way, so it does not matter whether they work one, three or four hours, so it benefits workers with very short shifts more.
This is a retroactive measure, applying to those periods paid part-time before October 1, 2023 for those who request access to new benefits. However, those who were already collecting a retirement pension or had collected some Social Security benefit after contributing at some point on a part-time basis, will not be able to benefit from this change.
Likewise, it must be considered that it does not affect the amount of pensions and benefits, since this will continue to be calculated based on contributions. Thus, the calculation of benefits is not modified, the regulatory basis being the same. The equalization influences the time that must be worked to generate the right to receive the pension in question, not its amount, which will be determined by applying to the regulatory base the general percentage that corresponds according to the years of contributions.
Until the implementation of this measure, the period considered as effective contributions eligible to credit the minimum contribution period took into account the hours during which the worker had been registered with a part-time contract. The days in which the worker remained registered part-time were multiplied by the partiality coefficient, to determine the number of days that are considered to have been effectively contributed in each period. The days of full-time contributions were added to the resulting number of days in order to know the total number of days of credited contributions that could be counted to access benefits.
