Spain: Council of Ministers adopts royal decree reforming collective bargaining

The text published on June 11th in the Official Journal came into force on June 12th.  It will be sent to Parliament as a bill and will then be able to include the amendments proposed by different political groups.  “Everything is open for discussion: insisted Labor Minister Valeriano Gomez, who presented the text as an “intermediary balance track” between the demands of the social partners, whom he asked to keep working on the text.  However, he determined two lines that cannot be crossed: the changes introduced to working conditions should always be negotiated, never unilaterally imposed, and the indefinite and systematic extension of collective agreements cannot be touched.  Here are some of the key points of the text.
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Gomez, who presented the text as an “intermediary balance track” between the demands of the social partners, whom he asked to keep working on the text. However, he determined two lines that cannot be crossed: the changes introduced to working conditions should always be negotiated, never unilaterally imposed, and the indefinite and systematic extension of collective agreements cannot be touched. Here are some of the key points of the text.


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