The Labour Minister intends to require companies to keep registers of independent workers (’autonomos’) who are working for them on a quasi-exclusive basis. The new rule will affect those who find their income is at least 75% dependent on a single company and as such should be enjoying the status of ‘economically dependent independent worker’. The government is seeking to identify ‘false independent’ workers who in actual fact are subject to the same work organization and working hours arrangements as regular salaried employees but who nonetheless have to provide their own means of production (be it a computer, tools and instruments, a lorry etc.) and who have to bear the full burden of their social security contributions.
The Labour Minister intends to create, along with the social security system, an overall register of ‘economically dependent independent workers’ as a way of combatting false independent workers. The initiative is in response to criticism of companies that since the start of the crisis have been instrumental in their staff migrating to independent worker status so that these newly independent workers find themselves working under the same conditions as before but who are shouldering the costs o
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