Introduction of Treball He demanded to bring the Government, employers and unions back to the table to change the basis of the last decision. labor reform, accepted by all parties. The Catalan employers’ association, which has never hidden its rejection of the norm supported by the confederal organization CEOE, presented this Monday a balance sheet in which it considers that the norm designed by the ministry of Yolanda Díaz is limited only to compensation. Volatility statistics without improving workers’ stability.
“Our intention is to carry out a consensual reformulation of recruitment,” said the Director of Labor at Foment del Treball. Javier Ibars, at a press conference. The business representative stated that the new contract rules set out in the regulation “hurt companies, create extra costs and change nothing else.”
Labor reform agreed between the executive (currently in office and in the process of reorganizing its coalition for another four years), the CEOE and the unions CCOO and next month the UGT will celebrate two years since its ratification. It has since succeeded in reducing temporary employment in the private sector. 26.4% Available in 2019, before covid, until now 14.2%. And do this by increasing the number of indefinite contracts signed, both full-time, part-time and non-permanent contracts.
“Statistical artificiality”
Catalan employers consider this reduction in deaths to be a “statistical trick” with no real impact on workers’ lives. The data shows that a total of 1.3 million full-time indefinite contracts were signed during the year in 2019, compared to 2.9 million full-time indefinite contracts signed in 2022 (the first year of the reform). This figure of 2.9 million contracts does not take into account the 1.7 million permanent part-time contracts signed and the 2.3 million permanent discontinued contracts signed.
Organization headed by Josep Sánchez Llibre He based much of his speech, which was highly critical of Yolanda Díaz’s proposals, such as reducing the working day to 37.5 hours or making permanent taxes on banks and energy companies, on a report by the temporary employment company (ETT). Randstad.
According to him, more uncertain contracts are signed because shorter-term contracts are made. So even though it is indefinite, most companies already treat it as an expiration date and the only difference from a temporary contract is that they now have to provide more money to pay more compensation to the employee. According to Randstad, 7 out of 10 contracts signed last no more than a year, compared to 4 out of 10 contracts before the reform.
Another fact highlighted by Randstad is the increase in unsuccessful attempts. That means companies that are less likely to use a temporary formula are more likely to give up on new employees who fail to convince them in their first day or week. By terminating the contract within the trial period (this period cannot exceed a maximum of six months), the company is not obliged to pay compensation and may do so without justified reason.
Randstad, extinctions trial period Although they represent a small percentage in absolute terms, they are multiplied by 11. For example, last August, a total of 608,769 indefinite contracts were signed and companies terminated 56,510 contracts due to not exceeding the trial period. A rate of 9.2 percent. In August 2021, when this source had not yet been triggered, there were 5,991 terminations compared to 118,985 signed indefinite contracts, a rate of 5%.