THIS MEASURE MEANS THE EQUALIZATION OF RIGHTS AND BENEFITS OF AGRICULTURAL WORKERS WITH THE REST OF THE EMPLOYED WORKERS.
The Government, BCC, UGT, CEOE, CEPYME and the sectoral organizations have reached an agreement in principle so that the 865.638 agricultural workers who currently contribute to the Special Agrarian Regime of Social Security, REASS, are integrated into the General Social Security Regime.

The integration of agricultural workers into the General Regime entails equalizing the benefits of the system that the sector will receive with those of the General Regime., which will result in a higher level of protection for agricultural workers.
As was done in the integration of self-employed farmers in the Self-Employed Regime, The integration of agricultural workers into the General Regime will be done through the creation of a special system within the General Regime that maintains the specificity of this group..
The content of the agreement will be reflected in a bill that will establish a transitional period of twenty years so that improvements in the protection of agricultural workers do not affect the competitiveness of agricultural holdings..
With the agreement reached between the Government and social agents, the agreements of the 13 July of 2006 and of 2 February's 2011 subscribed within the framework of social dialogue.
In addition, one more step is taken in the mandate of the Toledo Pact of integration of the Social Security system regimes into two large blocks: that of employed workers within the General Regime and that of self-employed workers, within the Special Regime for Self-Employed Workers, LETTER.