WORLD WORLDWIDE SPAIN News Journal Update - (en) Spain, CN #434 - The new business traps after the labor reform - Luis Royuela (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The latest labor reform has had results that, despite our distrust in

the political class, we have to qualify as positive. Indefinite hiring
has risen from the usual 10% to 48% last April. The number of contracts
has dropped by one million from the two million that were signed during
a month prior to the reform. Contracts of less than seven days have been
reduced by 38.3% since August 2019. But these data have their shadows.
---- Fewer working hours are paid. According to known SEPE figures, from
January to August the number of permanent part-time contracts has
multiplied by 3.5 compared to the same period in 2019. This means that
permanent contracts increase but that the hours worked and collected do
not have why grow up Being indefinite does not mean not being
precarious. Surely we all know colleagues in the hospitality industry,
known for breaching contracts and hours actually worked. On the other
hand, discontinuous permanent contracts have increased by 8.5%, which
are, in reality, part-time contracts "accumulated in the year", as
Miguel Ángel Malo Ocaña, professor of Economics at the University of
Salamanca, says. We will know if these contracts are fraudulent if these
workers are called back to their position in the following season.
Layoffs at zero cost within the trial period. The Ministry of Labor
offers data on the number of people who request the unemployment benefit
after not having passed the trial period. From January to July they
added 24,480 people, 38% more than in the same period of 2021, but still
23.8% below 2019. And it is necessary to point out that the latest
reform did not touch severance pay. This means that, in the Spanish
state, firing is still relatively cheap. There is no better measure to
guarantee job stability than making dismissal more difficult. And one of
the things that make it more difficult is making it more expensive.
Temporary contracts still exist. The shortest employment contract
modality, 7 days, is penalized by the reform. The solution of the
companies has been to go to the next section, from 7 to 15 days.
Contracts for between one and two weeks total 639,417, 11% more than
last year and 0.5% more than before the
pandemic.
Fired on Fridays and hired on Mondays. On August 1, there were 282,355
registrations in Social Security compared to 339,960 casualties. On the
last day of the month, 320,052 people lost their jobs. Every Monday the
numbers of registrations and cancellations multiply by three those of
any other day. It continues to be hired for months or weeks.
On the rebound we are going to make it more difficult for immigrants.
Right now you can only make a temporary employment contract with a
maximum duration of six months. Once completed, the contract must become
indefinite. To obtain residence and work authorization due to social
roots, you must have a job offer of a minimum duration of one year.
Temporary offers are no longer an option (except if the activity is
agricultural). It is obvious that this change is a hard blow for all
those who are pending to process their residence.
Despite the latest reform, the situation of women workers in the Spanish
state does not improve. With runaway inflation, salaries remain frozen.
Working conditions have only slightly improved.

Despite the latest reform, the situation of women workers in the Spanish
state does not improve. With runaway inflation, salaries remain frozen.
Working conditions have only slightly improved. In George Orwell's novel
'1984' -which was written in 1949, I add this note just in case Mr.
Núñez Feijóo is a reader of this newspaper- a fraudulent lottery system
appears with the purpose of keeping the population happy. Small prizes
are distributed, but the 'Gordo' is never distributed. This keeps the
population of the lower stratum hooked on hope, appeases their desire to
rebel and makes them forget their miseries.

The objective of these reforms is the same. They give us little crumbs
of the cake and with that they calm us down. We have the most
progressive government of democracy in Moncloa, we have a labor minister
with a Communist Party card and they have not been able to return our
45-day compensation. In addition, we have negotiating unions (CC.OO and
UGT) that seem to follow the maxim of enlightened despotism: "Everything
for the people, but without the people." They achieve small advances
that cause a large part of those affected to remain numb and grateful.

We have the most progressive government of democracy in Moncloa, we have
a labor minister with a Communist Party card and they have not been able
to return our 45-day compensation.

Combative unions like the CNT have to get the message across that things
are not going better with their reforms. For some it is better. For
most, no. According to the World Inequalities Laboratory, 10% of the
population accumulates 76% of global wealth, while the poorest half of
the population only owns 2%. In Spain, according to the EAPN-ES, the
combined income of the richest 10% of society multiplied by 11.8 that of
the poorest 10% last year.

Another front that affects us: the climate crisis. Heat waves and
'filomenas' do not all suffer equally. The Carlos III Health Institute
recorded 360 deaths attributable to high temperatures in the first six
days of the heat wave that affected the Spanish state this year. A
60-year-old street sweeper died in Vallecas. His daughter stated: "I
know he was aware that this could happen to him, but he did it because
he wanted to get a long contract. I'm convinced he didn't stop cleaning
that street until he passed out. He would think that they were not going
to renew him and he was giving everything to show that he was worth it».
At 60 years old he had a temporary contract. If we review history, we
can see that enlightened despotism, despite itself, led to the expansion
of enlightened ideas. These ideas were the fuse that lit the Revolution
of 1789, which ultimately pursued what all revolutions do: a more just
society. Then came the storming of the Bastille. And then heads started
to roll.

https://www.cnt.es/noticias/las-nuevas-trampas-empresariales-tras-la-reforma-laboral/
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