Agreement discontinuous constant is the star formula that encourages labor reform too high to steer temporariness -The highest figure in the EU, which has driven the Spanish economy for decades. The ‘explosion’ of this figure is unprecedented, with businessmen signing a total of 1.3 million new intermittent fixed lines since the beginning of the year. 847% more compared to the same period of the previous year.
The terms of this type of contract are more stability and guarantees to workers, if not at a contract level Undefined Ordinary. On the company side, it is less flexible than a temporary one, but more so than a permanent full-time one. Here at that intermediate line labor inspection is directing some of its efforts to ensure the legality of its use and to prevent the intermittent landline from turning into a tangled bag of insecurity that has hitherto been intertwined with temporary contracts.
The labor reform came into effect in January and from then until August the Labor Inspectorate determined the total number of workers. 26,347 discontinuous constant According to the data provided by the Ministry to the questions of EL PERIÓDICO, in the case of fraud in the law. Contracts that the ‘labor police’ then turn into full-time, indefinite relationships. These irregularities detected by investigators overshadow some of the proliferation this contract formula has experienced, as the unions are punctual but have no major evidence of fraud. “We are watching the shrinking of intermittent landlines, it has increased a lot and we believe there are cases that should be uncertain”, says the union policy secretary of the UGT de Catalunya. Nuria Gilgado.
These 26,347 false discontinuous constants are the first balance within a broader operation against temporality, which confuses actions against both companies abusing the discontinuous constant and companies doing the same with any of the final contract formulas. In total, in the first eight months of the year, the ‘labour police’ caught a total of 198,705 workers who were supposed to be temporary and permanent. 24% more than those detected in the same period of the previous year.
‘Call’ to the ranks, big trouble
“Day by day, we are seeing a massive shift from temporary contracts that should already be permanently discontinuous to permanent discontinuities,” explains a spokesperson for the Trade Union Progressive Labor Inspectors’ Union (UPIT). Mercedes Martinez. This inspector thinks it’s too early to strike a comprehensive balance on how companies are using this figure, as potential breaches (or not) can be measured more precisely at year’s end when it’s seen how addresses are managing the situation. calls to queues and definite stops when demand drops.
from Col·legi de Graduats Socials Barcelona also agrees on this diagnosis for the coming months. It’s easy to make a new contract, the problem is the administrative burden of maintaining it and the earlier temporary contract doesn’t require. If you can prove that you called the worker and he tells you that he is not interested in returning to work, you must justify this administratively. Spending on bureaufax has skyrocketed,” says the Col legi delegate from Lleida, Nacho Vendrell. “There are employers who want us to add compensation to the calculation of labor costs already because they do not want to deal with the operation of the intermittent fixed line and they prefer to lay off at the end of the season,” he said. adds.
While the extent of the reform has yet to be revealed, some of the ‘pitfalls’ companies use to avoid resorting to full-time uncertain employment are already shining through. One of the most common is to have a person as a fixed discontinuity person for 11 consecutive months and cancel the month in which they will have to take a vacation, thereby saving on contributions. Use the same formula Monday through Friday and take the weekend off to call the worker back the next Monday and save the two-day quota.