Sets working conditions for wildland firefighters in Spain

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1. The law creates a common framework for personnel working as wildland firefighters in firefighting tasks and, where applicable, prevention, detection, surveillance, public information and support in natural and rural emergencies. It also sets specific rights and duties for this group.
2. Military personnel, security forces, volunteers, aerial operations staff and urban fire department personnel are not considered wildland firefighters under this law.
3. Public administrations must establish the professional classification and the procedure to certify the skills of these workers. Ongoing training must take place during working hours and at no cost to the worker.
4. The law recognizes the right to legal defense for the legitimate exercise of their duties and calls for recognizing hazard, physical effort, toxicity and psycho-physical risk when negotiating their pay.
5. If the company providing the service changes, staff are transferred while keeping their rights under the law. Workers moved to a second activity due to reduced capacity remain assigned to the unit with duties suited to their situation.
6. Within one year, the Government must approve a specific occupational risk prevention regulation for these units and adapt special working hours to the adverse conditions of firefighting.

Who it affects

• Wildland firefighters, whether civil servants or employees: The common framework of duties, training, rights and occupational risk protection applies to them.
• Public administrations and linked entities: They must guarantee coordination, training, legal defense and working conditions.
• Companies contracting firefighting units: They must include rural emergency, forestry or environmental services among their activities and respect staff transfer rules.
• Volunteer firefighters and Forest Defense Groups: They are outside the law and remain governed by their own rules.

Words worth knowing

Subrogación

When the company or entity providing the service changes, staff move to the new one keeping their labor rights.

Segunda actividad

An adapted position for public employees who, for health reasons, can no longer do regular firefighting work.

EPIS

Personal protective equipment: clothing and gear that protects workers on the job.

Coeficientes reductores

Reductions in retirement age for working in demanding or hazardous activities.

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