Government to veto dismissal of workers due to sudden permanent disability

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Second vice president and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Diaz He announced that he would veto the powers of the companies by law. dismiss automatically and appropriately to a worker who alleges permanent disability This is how the subsequent Sumar leader proceeded this Friday at the conference organized by the UGT union on the future of employment. With the new regulation, layoffs whose main reason is the employee’s health will be announced. void The courts will have to reinstate the company and pay unpaid wages as well as compensation.

Díaz presented this deletion, which he will carry out “in the coming days”, within the framework of the reform of Article 49 of the Constitution, which aims to eliminate the phrase “”.decreased” When talking about people with various abilities. According to the latest data from INE, there are approximately 685,300 workers in Spain with some form of accredited disability.

Currently, Spanish legislation allows a company to justify an objective and appropriate dismissal if an employee suffers a sudden disability. Specifically, this assumption Article 49.1 of the Labor RegulationsAllowing the termination of the employment relationship “due to death, serious disability or total or permanent disability of the worker”.

“People suffering from varying degrees of permanent disability, some of which are linked to automatic termination of employment. Well, those who are fully permanently disabled and affected by the legislation do not have automatic dismissal,” said the vice-president, who argued that the change was in the interest of social justice.

“Deep injustice”

The second vice president called the gap between the salaries of leaders of large companies a “deep injustice.” mountain goat 35 and its employees. Last Wednesday, during the signing of the new inter-professional minimum wage, he questioned the “too high salaries” they receive and called for a public debate on potential ceilings or other measures on the issue. Some words that earned him a response from the CEOE president: Antonio Garamendi, he described these as “banana republic interventionism”.

Díaz demanded that businessmen pay their taxes religiously and follow the line of the 250 millionaires who signed a letter demanding that states increase their taxes. “I call on the Spanish business community to comply with their constitutional obligations and be responsible together with their country,” Sumar’s leader said.

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