The Congress is supporting an initiative to repeal the labour reform of the PP – Investing.com Spain

MADRID (Reuters) – The Congress of Deputies voted on Tuesday in favor of an initiative of the Spanish Socialist workers Party (PSOE) urged the Government to scrap its labour reform of 2012, dealing a new setback to the Popular Party, which governs with a minority in the chamber.

Although the law proposal of the PSOE does not have consequences legislative direct, your approval is in addition to other defeats parliamentary undergone by the PP in the little will of the legislature in matters such as education, security, or pension benefits.

The proposition received 168 votes in favour and 42 abstentions, compared to 131 votes against in a chamber of 350 members that voted 341 of them.

United we Can and the basque nationalists of the PNV, in addition to Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, pledged their support to the proposal of the PSOE during the discussion, which ensured a simple majority in favor of the initiative.

Citizens, with 32 seats, warned about his abstention in the vote, as well as a large part of the Mixed Group, in an initiative that was only rejected by the deputies of the PP, which has 134 seats.

The vote occurs in a week in which the trade unions Comisiones Obreras and the General Workers ‘ Union have organised mobilisations will culminate on Sunday with a demonstration in Madrid, the PSOE is committed to support.

“The labour reform was established for employers to establish unilaterally the day they wanted, the times that quisiseran and the wages that they wanted,” said Monday the socialist mp Rafael Simancas to defend your proposal during the debate.

The PSOE wants to end, among other elements, with the prevalence of company agreements on the sector, wants to recover the “ultra-activity” of agreements and restrict the hiring of temporary and part-time.

According to the socialists, the reform of 2012 was “the implementation of a model of labor relations authoritarian that has broken the balance of power between workers and entrepreneurs and weakened the collective bargaining”.

The Government argues, however, that the reform has helped to recover as 1.6 million jobs, half of those destroyed by the crisis, and contributed to the halt the layoffs in the worst years of the cycle, to give alternatives to employers offering job flexibility.

The socialist proposal does not include any particular amendments on compensation for unfair dismissal, one of the items most protested of the reform, which fell widely from 45 to 33 days per year worked in the computation of the compensation.

The PSOE (socialist party) framed the initiative in the political arena and placed any future proposition legislative to the results of a sub-commission that the socialists have proposed to constitute on this topic, among whose objectives is the creation of a new statute of workers.

“we Want this legislature to be that of a new statute of workers,” he said.

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