On Thursday, March 20, the Spanish Congress of Deputies approved an amendment to paragraph 2 of article 15 of the Workers' Statute Law. The change was made at the request of Afrucat, which asked for it through an amendment presented in the Senate at the beginning of the year.
"The 90-day maximum period provided for in the law wasn't enough for the Spanish agri-food sector. We needed this reform so that agricultural companies and producers could deal better with the agricultural peak seasons," stated Afrucat's Managing Director, Manel Simon, who attended this morning's Lower House session.
Afrucat also highlighted that the entire agri-food sector was included in this section of the law. "The previous text only included the agricultural sector. Now it includes the agri-food sector, giving legal certainty to the countryside and processing plants to apply these contracts to temporary workers."
In February, the association presented an amendment to the law during its passage through the Senate, which approved it and sent it to the Congress of Deputies to be ratified.
Amendment to the final provision of the Workers' Statute Law text, approved by Royal Legislative Decree 2/2015, of October 23. Paragraph 2 of Article 15 will include two different cases:
- The possibility of making temporary contracts of up to 6 months, if there is an occasional and unforeseeable increase in activity in the production... (an assumption already existing in the Law).
- The possibility for agri-food sector companies to make 90 or 120-day temporary contracts in the event of occasional, foreseeable situations of short duration... (modification of the underlined assumption).
For more information:
Manel Simon
Afrucat
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www.afrucat.com