Erik van Goch -> RE: Desahucios en Andalucia (Feb. 8 2013 16:03:23)
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Those are indeed disturbing figures. Loosing my (rental) house is one of my biggest fears as well. When i graduated as a flamenco guitar teacher (the 3th official one wold wide) Rotterdam local government refused to give me the usual financial support for (partly) unemployed people. According to them "musicians didn't fit the picture because there were no official jobs for musicians, so they couldn't actually be regarded unemployed/work-seeking". After i was able to convince them there was something called "music schools" (providing official jobs for music teachers like me) they reluctantly agreed, but immediately found another reason to reject me.... a dancing schools did pay me gross and according to them "musicians being payed gross" were officially regarded "to be there own boss" witch was an other department. That other department rightfully send me back to the first one and the end result was that i had to sue social welfare for wrongfully refusing to support me. The funny thing is they refused to pay me because as a musician i was payed gross at a dancing school which according to them made me "my own boss" and as such not an employe fitting there terms of conditions". The fact the dancing school was closed the upcoming mounds didn't matter because i was planning to work there again in future..... So if i stop working there in future you will pay me right away?.....no because then you will be voluntary unemployed wouldn't you ?.....but didn't you just state i'm rejected because according to you i don't fit the official working relationship you constantly refer to? How can i quite a boss/employe situation that according to you i don't have in the first place?.......well, uh....?????? you got met there..... so yes, if you plan to stop to work there we have to give you the money after all..... Do you realize that when i stop working there you have to pay me way more than the 0-50 a month i'm asking/needing right now......Yes i do, but since we are spending millions and millions of euro's an "additional" 500,- a month means totally nothing to us, all we we care about are principles. After i told him his principles were crap (and on top against the law) and that i had no intention to stop playing at that flamenco school he rejected my financial claim. It took me 9 mounts to win that battle in court, 9 mounds i had to depend completely on my income as a musician/part time postman. If i had become ill in that period i was in serious risk of running out of money and being kicked out of my department myself. Fortunately all went well, but i realize ever since how quickly things can go wrong. Nobody beliefs/understands the problems i had because in general opinion social welfare is a good working system to fit all situations....well it isn't. On national television other victims of the system are quite often believed to fail them self because people simply can't believe there stories. 1 guy didn't get welfare because he worked 10 meters over the border before he was fired (but they gladly collected his tax for years, including insurance for situations like this). Another guy lost his rental house because he was hospitalized for a couple of mounds and social welfare forgot they still had to pay his rent in the meantime. My granddad lost his family when he opened his house to numerous homeless people. I guess it runs in the family because i once run in serious problems of being kicked out of my rental department myself when i gave shelter to a homeless person who didn't mind the neighbors and me as much as i hoped for (i later gave shelter to a guy that was indeed kicked out of his rental department after giving illegal shelter to that very same person after i got finally write of here). Not a period of my life i like to think of with pleasure, although it probably did improve my flamenco. Dude to re-organisations i'm probably going to loose my job in near future. They can refuse welfare when you refuse to except other work offered...but they can also refuse welfare when you take the risk of excepting new work before you're officially fired and loose that new job after a standard trial period. So no matter what choice you make, problems are always lurking.
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