The EH Bildu group at the Congress presented a non-legal proposal to increase compensation in cases of unfair dismissal, as recommended by the Council of Europe.
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has asked Spain to establish a compensation system in the event of unfair dismissal that is “dissuasive” for businesses and takes into account “the real harm” suffered by workers , because he considers that the current model does not guarantee this.
The Basque sovereignist group wants this compensation to guarantee the protection of workers and to be dissuasive for the employer, returning to the sufficiency before the 2012 labor reform through a modification of labor legislation regarding dismissals.
“We seek to recover and increase unfair dismissal compensation that was excluded from labor reform.“, as recently requested by the Council of Europe, emphasized EH Bildu’s deputy spokesperson at the Congress, Oskar Matute.
Bildu recalls, in a press release, that this recommendation is the direct cause of a complaint filed in March 2022 by the UGT union, which alleged the violation of Article 24 of the European Social Charter which Spain ratified on May 6 1980 and which came into force. force for the Spanish State on June 5 of the same year.
The UGT’s complaint motivated, initially, an opinion from the European Council of Social Rights (CEDS), on July 29, then the recommendation, this week, from the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.
After emphasizing that this resolution goes against the successive reforms developed in the labor field over the last thirty years by the different Spanish governments, Matute emphasized that the 2012 labor reform is the one that “establishes a drop in severance pay which abandons any dissuasive recourse for the employer when dismissing its employee”.
Likewise, he stressed that severance pay has not been recovered or modified in the labor reform approved in 2022 and that it has already set a precedent in Spain. The deputy, whose proposal will be debated in Congress in the coming weeks, affirms that it benefits from the almost unanimous support of the Basque trade union centers, the State and other territorial centers.
