Majority opposition votes to scrap PP's labour reform, “the cause of a low-paid temporary job culture”
Thursday, December 15, 2016 @ 10:09 PM
A PARLIAMENTARY majority has agreed to scrap the PP's unpopular labour reform, taking advantage of their 'strength in numbers' now the right-wing government is in a minority.
Views of experts ranging from businesses, unions, associations, employment law specialists and workers who have fallen 'victim' to the reform concur that it effectively makes it easier and cheaper for companies to sack workers, giving them fewer rights, less bargaining power through their unions, cuts salaries, and has led to a low-pay temporary job culture rather than increasing employment in real terms.
Whilst some aspects of it have helped small businesses winding up or hitting financial troubles to avoid bureacracy when they are forced to make staff redundant to survive or avoid massive debt, the general view is that most firms use it to curtail working conditions, pay and job security.
The right-wing PP's direct opposite, the PSOE (socialists), along with the Catalunya Left Republicans, Valencia's regional left-wing Compromís, leftist independents Unidos Podemos, and the Basque National Party (PNV) all voted in favour of socialist employment spokesman Rafael Simancas' motion to scrap the reform and create a new Workers' Statute to replace it.
This was enough that the PP's vote against, and centre-right Ciudadanos' and Catalunya democrats PDCat's abstaining, could not stop the motion from going through.
Simancas stressed that Parliament did not want to 'wipe out all labour rules in one fell swoop', but to discuss and implement major changes where needed.
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