The Labor Inspection has sent 83,600 letters to Business where you suspect there may be discontinuous temporary or permanent contracts in fraud. The ‘labor police’ have thus launched a specific campaign to ensure proper compliance with the new contracting rules derived from the labour reform agreed with employers and unions. One of its star figures, the discontinuous fixed contract, has experienced a special increase in the last two months, as a result of the disappearance of others, such as work and service. And from the department led by Yolanda Díaz they have indications that not all the companies that have signed one are implementing it correctly.
The massive sending of letters from the Labor Inspection to companies to alert them of a potential action is a common practice in recent years of the ‘labor police’. It was already so in the time of the previous minister, the socialist Magdalena Valerio, and it is being so under the baton of her successor, Yolanda Díaz. Thus, with the mere preventive warning of indications of fraud, many of the companies that receive the letter regularize situations that could be in fraud and possible setbacks and penalties are avoided.
An alert that in the current circumstances makes special sense, since one of the changes introduced by the labor reform is that now lThe sanctions for abuse of temporary employment do not compute a sanction per work center, but a sanction per worker. Which can multiply the amount of the fine. The 83,600 companies alerted by Labor employ a total of 199,980 workers, as explained by the Díaz department.
The employment of discontinuous fixed contracts has skyrocketed in the last two months, since the full entry into force of the labor reform in April. The unions have been educating their delegates for some time about the details of this type of contract to guarantee its correct use in the workplace. And now from Labor they activate the machinery to ensure that it is really being fulfilled.