Spain: new Royal Decree introduces framework to develop dual vocational training Legal developments National legislation ecree No. 1529/2012 introducing the contract of training and learning based on the dual training system was published. It is meant to gradually implement the dual vocational training system in Spain with the aim of contributing to a decrease in the school drop-out rate and the youth unemployment rate. (Ref. 120672) This Royal Decree was given the green light during a difficult time for young people in Spain.…
Spain: summary of the key measures in the Rajoy administration’s austerity package Legal developments National legislation Public sector. Nearly all public employees, regardless their legal condition (civil servants, employees under employment contracts, etc.), will suffer: (a) a salary cut affecting the 14th payment, which in practical terms means approximately a 4 to 7 percent reduction in their annual salary, (b) a reduction in the number of days off, and (c) a reduction in the amount of some social benefits, such as the additional pay they receive during a temporary incapacity for work due to sickness or accident. Furthermore, employee representatives in the public sector see some of the facilities previously afforded by agreement or convention revoked insofar as they exceeded those strictly established by the law.
Spain: commentary of the law reforming the labor market adopted on June 28 Legal developments National legislation The Law 3/2012 introduces quite a number of small amendments compared with the decree adopted in February (for the detailed commentary of the text, see our dispatch No. 120125), most of them of a technical nature, but the truly significant innovations of the Law 3/2012 are very few. The following are the main new contents:
Spain: labor reform permanently adopted Legal developments National legislation The Parliament permanently adopted the new “Emergency Act for the Reform of the Labor Market,” with the support of the people’s party and of the Catalonian (CiU) and Basque (PNV) nationalist parties. The text came into force as soon as it was passed as a decree law on February 12 (see our dispatch No. 120125). However, the government accepted to let it make its legislative journey, to let the political groups represented in Parliament make amendments. The limit of 656 amendments in Congress and 574 amendments in Senate presented by left-wing parties was exceeded.
Spain: last-ditch stand for unions against the labor market reform National industrial relations Spend one night and one day protesting against a useless, unfair and detrimental reform. It is a way of reminding that unions won’t give in and will keep fighting “night and day” against a “useless, unfair and detrimental” reform. Unions also want this mobilization to be a more global protest against the “policy of downsizing social rights” the government has been carrying out, implementing budget adjustment measures harming social services and public education and health systems.
Spain: unions call for a day of mobilization on April 29 to defend social rights and public services National industrial relations The government’s projects includes reducing free health care, co-funding of medicine for pensioners who used to be exempt, more students in the classroom and more teaching hours for teachers.
Spain: government maintains reforms, social unrest grows National industrial relations Demonstrations took place in several towns across the country with the catchphrase: “Quieren acabar con todo” – they want to end it all. The El Pais daily says 170,000 marched through Madrid, 95,000 in Valencia and 275,000 in Barcelona, where the demonstration ended with a few encounters with the police. After the march in Madrid, the leaders of the UGT and Workers’ Commissions unions read a manifesto calling for the opening of talks “to all pull in the same direction.”
Spain : commentary of the latest labor reform National legislation ment, with the support of the Spanish people, the Mariano Rajoy administration promised to go through with the labor market reform even if it committed to keep on exchanging with the social partners until May 8,…
Spain: government adopts wide labor market reform Legal developments National legislation The reform, published in the Official Journal on Saturday, February 11, comes into force today, February 13, even if the Parliament has to sign it for it to be truly permanent. Unions called for mobilization and are not ruling out the possibility of a general strike. They are denouncing the introduction of a system leading the way for general cuts into pay and social protection. Here are they key points of the reform.
Spain: businesses say 2010 labor market reform is ineffective National industrial relations 85% of the people surveyed believe that the measures of the labor market reform, adopted in 2010 (see our dispatch No. 100669), brought about no significant changes to working conditions, and 60% say the reform doesn’t simplify the grounds for faire termination, one of the law’s official goals. Most consider that those who wrote the reform did identify labor market problems well and set out the right objectives. However, they think the final text wasn’t ambitious enough, even though entrepreneurs say the reform helped decrease average layoff cost and make progress on some internal flexibility measures. But 97% say the reform is insufficient.
