Bill to curb temporary hiring and precarious part-time work

Automatic summary, not yet reviewed

1. The bill would presume that employment contracts are permanent and allow temporary hiring only for productive or organizational reasons. The task-and-service contract would disappear, and temporary contracts would be capped at six months, extendable to one year by collective agreement.
2. Workers hired temporarily in breach of the new rules would become permanent. Firing such a worker would be null, and end-of-contract pay would be set at twenty days of salary per year of service, with fifteen days of notice.
3. Part-time work would be reformed: contracts must state the hours and the clock-in and clock-out times, additional hours would be eliminated, paid overtime would be allowed, and any change in working hours would always be voluntary for the worker.
4. All workers would have a daily record of working hours, including clock-in and clock-out times, available to the Labor Inspectorate. The Government would have six months to approve the model document.
5. The permanent seasonal (fijo discontinuo) contract would be reserved for foreseeable seasonal or campaign work, with a right to be called back to work, an annual staff census, and seniority as the default calling order.
6. The entrepreneur support contract and the youth first job contract would be repealed, and the Government would have twelve months to draft a law on temporary public employment. The law would take effect the day after publication in the official gazette.

Who it affects

• Temporary and part-time workers: They would gain more protection: they could become permanent if their contract breaks the rules and would have equal rights with permanent staff.
• Companies: They would face tighter limits on temporary hiring, mandatory working time records, and penalties for fraud.
• Permanent seasonal workers: They would have a right to be called back in an objective order, backed by an annual census the employer could not evade.
• Labor Inspectorate: It would be reinforced with specialized teams on working time in hospitality and retail.

Words worth knowing

Contrato fijo discontinuo (permanent seasonal contract)

A permanent contract for work done only at certain times of year, such as campaigns or seasons; the employer calls the worker in when there is work.

Horas complementarias (additional hours)

Extra hours an employer could impose on a part-time worker; the bill would eliminate them.

Estatuto de los Trabajadores (Workers' Statute)

Spain's main law on labor rights and duties.

Proposición de ley (bill)

A text introduced by members of Congress to become a law; here it is not yet approved.

It summarizes the text as it was introduced. It is written by artificial intelligence and may contain mistakes: the official text is what counts. Read the official text · How we make summaries