Labor Inspectorate campaign against fraudulent part-time contracts. The public body sent 124,300 letters to companies following the detection of alleged abuses in nearly 240,000 contracts, thanks to massive data cross-referencing. The objective is to “highlight” the real working hours of these professions.
Concretely, “124,331 communications were sent” which affect “239,767 working relationships”, explains the Inspectorate on social networks.
It should be remembered that part-time contracts largely affect women, they represent 73% of part-time workers. Additionally, in many cases this is an unwanted type of contract, with workers who would prefer to have full-time employment.
This is a new edition of the Shock Plan against part-time hiring fraud, the one corresponding to 2024, just as a similar campaign was also launched a few days ago which affects abuse in discontinuous temporary and permanent contracts.
In this type of campaign, the Inspectorate sends letters to companies where it detects allegations of fraud, thanks to the massive cross-checking of data. Labor gives companies a deadline to regularize contracts, or to justify their legality. If the company ignores the “informative” notice or is not convincing in its explanations, the Labor Inspectorate intervenes to verify that labor regulations are respected.
In 2022, “the last shock plan in this area was carried out”, which increased “the working day by 47,190 working relationships”, reported the Ministry of Labor in response to questions from this media.
“In 2019, the previous shock plan meant an increase in working hours for 40,765 workers,” they add from Yolanda Díaz’s department.
Working hours constitute one of the main sources of abuse at work, according to annual assessments by the Labor Inspectorate. However, in many cases they are difficult to detect, which is why the Ministry of Labor wants, among other measures, for the Inspectorate to have remote access to the mandatory time records that companies must carry out.
