"The easier we fire, the easier we hire." The president of the Confederation of Employers' Organizations, Joan Russell, used this point yesterday to explain a main proposal that will inspire some party policies during upcoming elections: reducing redundancy in Spain's labor force. Rosell specified that incorrect motivation for redundancy (when a judge does not accept the causes for dismissal that a company provides) is reduced to 20 days pay for workers who have been with a company at least 12 months.
This is the current costs for firing a worker with cause, considering that 78% of redundancy appeals are rejected by a judge. For this reason, the leader of the CEOE proposed that reasons for termination should be "left extremely clear" and that the costs of each legitimate redundancy is reduced to 12 days pay per 12 months worked.
Contracts and Agreements
The CEOE president claimed that "Spanish legislation is obsolete in regard to this matter." In order to re-tool the labor market, we have to start from the beginning: hiring workers. It has been proposed that the current number of contract classes, 43 different types, be reduced to merely five to aid hiring logistics: permanent, temporary, intermittent, job or service (temporary), internship/training, and part time.
