Labor Inspection campaign against fraudulent part-time contracts. The public body has sent 124,300 letters to companies when detecting alleged abuses in almost 240,000 contracts, thanks to massive data crossing. The objective is to “bring to light” the true working hours of these jobs.
Specifically, “124,331 communications have been sent” that affect “239,767 labor relations,” explains the Inspection on social networks.
It must be remembered that part-time contracts largely affect women, they represent 73% of part-time workers. Also, it is an unwanted type of contract in many cases, with workers who would prefer to have a full-time job.
This is a new edition of the Shock Plan against fraud in part-time hiring, the one corresponding to 2024, just as a similar campaign was also launched a few days ago that affects abuses in temporary and permanent discontinuous contracts.
In this type of campaigns, the Inspection sends letters to companies where it detects alleged fraud, thanks to the massive crossing of data. Labor gives companies a deadline to regularize contracts, or to justify their legality. If the company ignores the “informative” notice or is not convincing in its explanations, the Labor Inspection acts to verify that labor regulations are complied with.
In 2022, “the last shock plan in this matter was carried out”, which increased “the working day by 47,190 labor relations”, the Ministry of Labor reported in response to questions from this medium.
“In 2019, the previous shock plan meant an increase in working hours for 40,765 labor relations,” they add from Yolanda Díaz’s department.
Working hours are one of the biggest sources of labor abuse, according to the annual evaluations of the Labor Inspection. However, in many cases they are difficult to detect, which is why the Ministry of Labor wants, among other measures, for the Inspection to have remote access to the mandatory time records that companies must carry out.
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