The CCOO and UGT trade unions and the management of Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica have reached an agreement that will guarantee workers’ right to digitally disconnect and a second agreement on the way in which a daily working time register will be set up, both of which are in keeping with measures recently introduced into Spain’s employment law. The two agreements will apply to all Spanish subsidiaries of the group.
The right to disconnect was already open to many employees of the Telefónica group, but it has now become the rule. Employees will be able to completely disconnect at the end of the working day and the opposite will now be the exception, under an agreement signed on 17 July by the group’s management and trade unions, which applies law 3/18 on personal data protection and digital rights, of 5 December 2018 (see article n°10938).
The agreement follows on from an initial text from 23 November 2018,
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