Supermarket employees will be entitled to at least five weekends off a year, regardless of the fact that their workload is divided over 4, 5 or 6 days a week. The National Court gave satisfaction to the CCOO and UGT unions against the sector's employers' organizations, which claimed that this right was reserved to 6 days a week. (Ref. 120408)
The FECOHT-CCOO and CHTJ-UGT commerce federations called upon the justice, considering that there was discrimination between the employees and reminding that the sector’s collective agreement, ratified in September 2009, guaranteed the principle of free weekends to foster work-life balance and didn’t differentiate between employees. The two unions denounced the fact that employers’ representatives a posteriori tried to amend the text without them knowing it, to introduce a distinction between
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