Mariano Rajoy's government will reform the hiring system in order to reduce the number of hiring classes currently utilized in Spain. The goal is to move from 40 hiring classes to no more than five or six. Among them, according to conversations held between employers' organizations and the populist government, the Ministry of Employment is most apt to pursue is to establish new and clearer public works contracts. Further, this would be the only proposal that the labor unions are ready to sign, according to sources from involved in the negotiations.
It is a matter of making this kind of contract more widespread and doing away with limitations that some collectives currently have. That is to say, it could be used in the way that the 45-day indemnification is used currently. In practice, the 33-day contracts (that establish 20 days severance for rightful layoffs) would re-establish the 45 days of indemnification.
Now only certain people can accept the 33-day contracts: unemployed workers, young workers beneath the age of thirty (35 for women), those with disabilities and victims of domestic violence.
These are some limitations that make it rather complicated for business owners who utilize this workforce, especially the self-employed that do not have human resources departments. In fact, only 65,000 out of 1.2 million jobs created in the month of November were 33-day hiring contracts.
