For some time, the Ministry of Labor has strengthened the activity of the Inspection, both in terms of routine activities and specific campaigns. In fact, over the past 45 days, the ministry has launched two shock plans for hunting employment fraud in 326,670 contracts.
On the one hand, the ministry launched this week an emergency plan against contract fraud part time. To do this, she sent 124,331 letters to companies with 239,767 suspicious contracts.
The objective is to put an end to the fraud committed with this type of contracts, which after the labor reform have become more frequent. The objective of inspections? That the effective working hours of workers be extended by contract… and that they are compensated for it, of course.
📢The #ITSS launched a shock plan against part-time contract fraud.
👉 124,331 communications 📩 were sent, affecting 239,767 work relationships.
🎯 With the aim of highlighting the real days that workers carry out. pic.twitter.com/az1b5xDnJA— ITSS – Labor and Social Security Inspection (@ITSS_INSPECCION) November 27, 2024
On the other hand, there is also another shock plan from the Labor Inspectorate. This is the second initiative of his hunting group against temporary contracts fake. This is why they were sent 39,116 communications concerning 86,903 workers in a manifestly irregular situation.
“The objective is to regularize Fraudulent discontinuous temporary and permanent contracts of indefinite duration“, indicates the Inspectorate. “If they are not regularized within the allotted time, inspection actions will be initiated. “However, it is worth remembering that companies can make allegations because they believe their contracts comply with the law.
These two shock plans coincide in time with an increase in the regular activity of the Inspection in a particular area. According to economic sources, their work has intensified in recent weeks in the logistics sectorat its moment of maximum intensity marked by the Black Friday and Cyber Monday campaigns.
The work of inspectors and interviews with workers make deliveries and travel difficult for businesseswhich complicates the work of companies, denounce the sources cited.
All this in the midst of the maximum requirements required by dates as important as those mentioned. This is not a situation that only affects the last mile, particularly scrutinized by the Ministry of Labor’s campaigns against self-employed workers.
Entrepreneurs in the logistics sector tell this newspaper that they have received frequent visits from the Inspectorate in recent weeks. Certain visits which paralyze your activity (temporarily) and which occur in particular, large capitals like Madrid and Barcelona.
Consulted by EL ESPAÑOL-Invertia, sources from the Ministry of Labor assure that there is no specific campaign in this sector, beyond the regular activity of the Inspection and the shock plans put in place.
