The main problem with the labor market is the increasing gap between those who have full-time contracts with guaranteed severance packages and those who have temporary work. As it turns out, young workers fall into the latter category even though they are not always the least qualified. This is one of the reasons that explains why 57% of young Spanish workers are unemployed. Since the Labor Commission insisted on the need to extend labor reforms, which even if they have done some good, can be improved and have not done away with redundancy in the jobs market.
The EU's Employment Commissioner, Lászlo Ándor, proposed yesterday that the EU implement a single form of open labor contracts across the region. When unemployment reached 4.6 million in 2009, economists presented this suggestion to the nation's former Prime Minister Rodríguez Zapatero in the Manifiesto de los 100, a document created in 2009 to reform Spain's labor market.
Juan Rosell, the leader of the Spanish Confederation of Employers' Organizations, and Minister Fátima Báñez both called for a more streamlined government administration. Surprisingly, with more than 6 million jobless workers and the entire Spanish society demanding measures to fix a nasty labor situation, Mariano Rajoy prefers to do nothing, say labor reforms are going well and reject any initiative to improve it.
elEconomista reported several days ago that the Prime Minister can't stay wedded to the Moncloa syndrome: alienated from reality. On Thursday he meets with a group of social agents. If he really wants to fix unemployment, he will have to propose some ideas and be open to new reforms or deepening existing ones. If he decides to let the problems fester without fixing them, then he will receive strong disapproval at the ballot box.
