When there’s only three months left until they’re filled the first four years of the last labor reform, the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, failed to obtain the results of the evaluation table to which the law itself requires … evaluate the positive and negative aspects of this standard. This should have been done since the beginning of this year, when three exercises in force. But the current climate of social dialogue has prevented any progress from the Ministry of Labor, according to employer sources.
This first self-evaluation was not a whim but an obligation this marks the very standard that the government has applied in a agonizing vote. The text invites the second vice-president and the social agents to sit down face to face to evaluate the effects of this measure: now there are more jobs and fewer temporary jobs; but also more permanent installations and more hiring part timetwo factors which explain why part of the population cannot make ends meet or must resort to a second job.
An additional provision (24) of the text of the labor reform requires “carrying out an assessment” of temporary work in Spain at the beginning of 2025. Both “general” and “by sector”he specifies while publishing the statistics. And if the degree of stability of the labor market has not “advanced” sufficiently, the Executive must propose measures to achieve this. And the law affects: “Whether in general or in different sectors”.
This is a committee in which CEOE, Cepyme, UGT and CC.OO. participate in collaboration with the Ministry of Labor. Data from January 2025 serve as a reference to compare them with those from early 2022. The economic situation was then very different: Spain has not emerged from the “shock” of the pandemic and faced the challenge of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and inflation which, by that time, was already endemic. This is why they chose to give themselves a three-year margin to assess the impact of the labor reform.
The employers’ organization, which recognizes the total paralysis of this type of necessary evaluation after almost four years, demanded that The work does not use “unprofessional standards” “which have changed the labor market”, emphasize the employers, such as the intention to modify the layoffs. This is where unions are demanding change. After the advice of the Council of Europe to adapt the conditions of dismissal in Spain, the UGT and CC.OO. They believe that it is time to address this debate. They will also influence the need to address training contracts. A modality that the labor reform put on the table but which has barely been used.
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