The CCOO and UGT trade unions, as well as the employer confederations CEOE and Cepyme, have together drawn up a document setting out their joint proposals for dealing with the coronavirus and cushioning the impact of the health crisis on companies and employment. They set out their demands through a videoconference with the head of state on Thursday 12 March. In particular, they are calling for the recourse to partial or temporary unemployment to be simplified, as well as extraordinary measures to reduce the time that must be set aside for consultation with staff representatives under the law, from 15 days to 7 days.
Along with this mechanism, a clarification is to be provided as regards cases considered to be examples of force majeure, against the backdrop of declining business activity owning to the coronavirus outbreak, so that businesses and employees have all the corresponding legal protections. Social partners are demanding an acceleration of procedures to initiate measures for internal flexibility as well as the reorganisation of schedules and workloads, amid a decline in business activity,...
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