Neither the vice president’s aid proposal nor the negotiating ultimatum. The extraordinary Executive Committee of CEOE meeting this Tuesday has rejected unanimously the Ministry of Labor’s proposal for a legal reduction in the working day. «After having focused as a priority on how to collaborate through companies and social dialogue in human and economic support for the victims of DANA, the Executive Committee has addressed the Government’s regulatory proposal, given the time limit established by the Ministry at the negotiating table,” says the business organization in a statement.
He explains that “the conclusion is that CEOE and Cepyme, from the responsibility“They cannot support this proposal.” The employers assure that “modifying by law issues that are the subject of collective agreements, such as the reduction of working hours, and that, in fact, are already being agreed bilaterally in the agreements, represents an interference in the autonomy of negotiation collective, enshrined in the article 37.1 of the Constitution«.
“Thus, the approval of this norm – he concludes – only weakens the collective bargaining framework that has been fundamental to maintaining social peace during the last 40 years and, in practice, it leads many companies, especially SMEs and the self-employed, to a forced reorganization that will put their internal organizational capacity and survival to the limit.
The statement states that “CEOE and Cepyme also want to make it clear that it will be difficult to increase productivity from the reduction of working hours in a productive fabric made up of around one 98% by SMEs and the self-employedand where the sectors with the greatest contribution to GDP are linked, among others, to services or tourism.” They add that »adopting measures like this, in general, makes little sense if we take into account the enormous differences between the different economic sectors and between autonomous communities«. And they remember that article 37.1 of the Constitution ensures that “the law will guarantee the right to collective labor bargaining between representatives of workers and employers, as well as the binding force of agreements.”
The Ministry of Labor and its manager, Yolanda Díaz, gave the employers until the 11th to accept the new aid for SMEs or, otherwise, they would approve the reduction in working hours by law, even without aid to the business community. . “On November 11 we need a yes or no,” said Díaz herself. And the answer has been no. “Ultimatums are not a good way to negotiate,” CEOE has been warning.
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