The approval of the ERTEs by the DANA and the ERTE was one of the topics addressed at the inauguration of the XX Galician Meeting of Labor Relations, which took place at the Iberik Gran Balneario de Guitiriz with the presentation by Antía Sández Callejo, president of the Galician Council of Labor Relations, and the master class of the magistrate of the Supreme Court and also, university professor, Antonio Sempere Navarro.
The magistrate in the Social Chamber of the Supreme Court opened this 20th edition by referring to the most outstanding issue of national newsto later carry out a review of more than ten recent rulings with an impact on collective bargaining.
In this regard, he began his speech by saying that “it is difficult for me to start speaking without remembering so many people who have been left without a home, without a business or without a life in my community, Valencia,” said Sempere, who added that this situation is not like covid.
Sempere explained that “it is said that the Covid ERTE give us the model, but on that occasion the companies were sleeping, while now the infrastructure no longer exists and cannot function again,” he explained, recognizing that in this matter “laborism” has a lot to say.
The magistrate also focused his inaugural speech on collective bargaining. “If we do a survey of thousands of labor activists, social graduates, union members, lawyers, inspectors, magistrates and professors about the three main problems of labor law todayI bet that collective bargaining does not come out, but compensation for dismissal, working hours, collective dismissal or retirement does,” he highlighted.
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During his intervention, he reviewed more than a dozen recent sentences with an impact on the socio-labor environment. Among others, he referred to the so-called 1142 and 1161 (both from 2024), which affect the legal regime for recording working hours, one of the topics on which the debate of the working groups focuses during the first table of the Meeting.
In this sense, the High Court magistrate explained that “the law requires that the company agreement organize and document the workday record, guaranteeing that it includes the beginning and end of the workday of each worker,” and provide it monthly. to union committees and sections.
Sempere linked this requirement to the origin of a collective conflict, since the unions ask to be allowed real-time access to log contentto know what is happening and corroborate, among other things, the overtime of each worker.
Finally, the president of the Galician Council of Labor Relations, Antía Sández, spoke about the reform of the Royal Decree-Lei 2/2024which modified the regulation of collective bargaining at the level of the Autonomous Communities and, where appropriate, the provinces, to ensure the application of the most favorable agreements for workers. T
He also mentioned the scope that the implementation of a maximum legal working day of 37.5 hours per week in fundamental aspects such as time registration, conciliation rights, irregular distribution of the day, teleworking or digital disconnection.
Regarding it, he highlighted what would be the aid of collective agreements in the face of this possible new regulationsince they should not only adapt to assume the reduction, but they would also be dedicated to exploring the necessary innovations to translate the letter of the law to the multiple sectoral, territorial, functional and personal realities.
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