The labor reform that the partners of the Spanish Government aspire to change in Congress has been approved

The Council of Ministers has approved this Tuesday the Royal Decree-Law that reforms the labor market to put a stop to temporality, restore balance to Collective negotiation and incorporate temporary employment regulation files into ordinary legislation (FOR HIM) that will replace those used in a pandemic, but with the same objective: to avoid layoffs.

The reform, which will take effect tomorrow, WednesdayExcept for the new contract regulation, which will do so within three months, the Council of Ministers sees the light of day after the agreement reached by the Spanish Government with unions and businessmen on Christmas Eve and with it, the objective committed to Brussels to have the labor reform ready before the end of 2021.

The PSOE It has already started conversations with the parliamentary groups to explore “to the maximum” all the possibilities it has to add the necessary support to the labor reform and thus “respect” the text that has been agreed with the social agents.

Republican Left Y eh Bildu, budgetary partners of the coalition government, have insisted on their rejection of what was agreed by unions and employers, considering that it does not imply a real repeal of the legislation of the Executive of the PP.

The PNV, another of the parliamentary partners of the Spanish Government, has already warned that it will not support the labor reform if it does not reflect the “priority” of Basque agreements over state-level ones.

We can Euskadi He has celebrated the “historic event” which, in his opinion, supposes the approval of the labor reform, which “represents the greatest advance in labor rights in the last 40 years”. Likewise, he has pointed out that there is “room for improvement” in the parliamentary process and, for its part, it is “ambitious”.

The secretary general of UGT, Pepe Álvarez, stressed that the labor reform “is going in the right direction”, although he has admitted that there is still “other work to be done” to address those issues that have not finally entered the text.

The vice president of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE) and president of the National Federation of Associations of Self-Employed Workers (they), Lorenzo Amor, has stated that the employers “are not willing” to “touch a single comma” of the agreement reached, while emphasizing that the aforementioned agreement “maintains the flexibility of the companies” and is the result of the “responsibility of the social partners”.