The Government proposes to soften the limits to temporary hiring to bring the CEOE closer
The Government will present a new proposal to the dialogue table on the labor reform in which the contributions of the negotiators on issues related to hiring will be taken into account, according to union sources after the meeting by videoconference on Tuesday.
The labor reform is delayed to try the agreement and could be approved the last week of December
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The conversations of this meeting have revolved around article 15 of the Workers' Statute, relative to the duration of the contracts, where the Government has softened its approaches to attract the CEOE and would allow temporary contracts “due to production circumstances for attend occasional and predictable campaigns "as long as said campaigns are of a very short duration. This point does not eliminate the position already raised by the Executive that temporary contracts cannot be extended beyond 90 days.
Regarding Article 16, on discontinuous permanent contracts, the Government proposes that the formula for incorporation of this type of employees be established in the collective agreements, so that the companies will notify the unions about the needs of discontinuous permanent workers each year as well. like the contract plan.
The limitation of temporary hiring is one of the objectives of this reform, which aims to put an end to the temporary nature and precariousness of the Spanish labor market, as the Second Vice President and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, has said on several occasions.
Although the videoconference on Tuesday lasted about five hours, the unions maintain that "not much progress has been made." The social dialogue table will meet again on Friday, with the deadline for having the labor reform approved, before the end of the year, getting closer and closer.
Díaz has insisted these days that the "self-imposed" deadline will be fulfilled and committed to Brussels to have the "great labor market reform" published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) before December 31 of this year.
The work of the social dialogue table on labor reform has intensified in recent weeks, as the parties hold at least two meetings per week (last week they met three times). "We are completing the tasks and the Government is working to reach an agreement between all parties," stressed the vice president.
The proposal made by the CEOE last week has been incorporated as one more element of the negotiation, although from the outset the unions consider that some of the measures it raises are "unaffordable."
For Vice President Díaz, the fact that the employer has made a proposal at the table means that "they are for the yes." The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations, José Luis Escrivá, affirmed last Thursday that the CEOE is having a "constructive" position in this negotiation and that there will be things in its proposal "that yes, others that no, and others that there will be. to readjust ".
The truth is that the business organization has already expressed its rejection of the limitation of the number of temporary workers in relation to the entire workforce, as defended by the Government. Instead, the CEOE advocates maintaining current legislation and traditional causation, among other measures.
