The second vice president of the Government and Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, has officially registered her candidacy to assume the general direction of the International Labor Organization (ILO), as reported this Friday by the newspaper Cinco Días and later confirmed by Europa Press.Díaz's aspiration to lead...
The timely payment of wages constitutes one of the main rights of workers. However, there are not a few employees who each month wonder how many days a company can take to pay the salary or what happens when the payroll does not arrive on the usual date. Spanish labor legislation...
The footwear employers, represented by FICE and AEC, together with the trade union federations CCOO Industria and UGT-FICA, have signed at the Interconfederal Mediation and Arbitration Service (SIMA) the new collective agreement that will govern between 2026 and 2029, which includes an accumulated salary increase of 12%.As the trade union...
The unions of the Negotiation Scope have expressed their outright rejection of the initiative proposed by the autonomous communities (CCAA) in the last Interterritorial Council of the National Health System (SNS), in which they defend starting the negotiation of the Framework Statute from the beginning again. Against this intention, the...
The General Union of Workers (UGT) has expressed its support for Yolanda Díaz's candidacy to lead the International Labour Organization (ILO), considering that her political trajectory incorporates in her agenda "all the important issues" related to employment and that it represents "a guarantee of leadership, commitment, and capacity for consensus."In...
As every year, we always wish for summer to arrive to take a vacation period recognized by law. According to the agreement and employment contract, it can be negotiated with the company to grant them on a certain date, but what is not negotiable is the number of days granted. According...
The European Commission has taken a new step this Monday in the drafting of the future Quality Employment Law by starting the second phase of consultations with trade union and business organizations. This round will serve to outline a proposal that will incorporate measures to limit the use of artificial...
The second vice president of the Government and head of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, held a meeting this Wednesday with the Minister of Employment and Labor of South Africa, Nomakhosazana Meth.The meeting aimed to consolidate bilateral relations and cooperation between both countries, focusing on strengthening socio-labor rights in...
This week Alberto Núñez Feijóo suggested that a worker on sick leave should earn less and described labor absenteeism as "a cancer". The PP leader's statements spread like wildfire, generating controversy and the need for a clarification of them by his own party, which has tried to put out a...
Conversation evolution Absenteeism + Feijóo + PP 2390 publications 777 posts 25/0602/0709/07 Peak day July 08 777 publications Daily average 159.3 posts/day The statements by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, leader of the People's Party, referring to sick leave as "a cancer" and proposing changes to the protection of workers...
The Minister of Youth and Childhood, Sira Rego, has urged young Basques to organize and "approach" class unions to safeguard their rights against the policies of the PP leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, whom she sees as "embarked on a desperate race to be the most fascist in Spain" and intending...
The sector's employers' association and the UGT and CCOO unions have signed the Collective Agreement for Pulp, Paper, and Cardboard, which foresees a cumulative salary increase of 7.5% between 2026 and 2028, as communicated by both union organizations this Thursday.The agreement, with a duration of three years (2026-2028), establishes a...
The general secretary of CC.OO., Unai Sordo, has maintained that the recent statements by the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, on sick leave constitute a blunder and reflect the opinion of a relevant part of the economic right and employers: "People who are forced to take a leave...
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has considered "absolutely unfortunate" the words of the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in which he stated that absenteeism is a "cancer that we cannot afford" and questioned whether an employee on leave receives the same salary as when they are...
The Minister for Digital Transformation and Public Function, Óscar López, has lashed out against the political project of the Popular Party, which he accuses of going against the labor rights consolidated by workers over recent years."I appreciate the transparency, it's good that it's known. That's what Mr. Feijóo proposes: to...
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has harshly criticized those who describe sick leave as a "cancer" or suggest that sick employees "earn less," demanding that the rights of the working class be safeguarded."Whoever calls sick leave a 'cancer' and proposes that sick workers earn less makes it clear...
CC.OO., together with the French CGT and the Italian CGIL, signed this Monday the "Declaration of Barcelona", a text that proposes to oppose class consciousness, anti-fascism, and internationalist trade unionism to new authoritarians and the advance of the far-right. The signing took place within the framework of the 35th CC.OO....
The Minister of Finance, Arcadi España, has emphasized to the general secretary of Comisiones Obreras (CCOO), Unai Sordo, the relevance of trade union organizations in the defense and maintenance of labor achievements, in a context in which "real threats of setbacks in social and labor rights conquered in recent years"...
The link between job dismissal and artificial intelligence is no longer a future hypothesis in banking. The Spanish financial sector is preparing for a new phase of transformation in which some of the tasks that until now were carried out by administrative, commercial, or support employees may be absorbed by automated systems. Banks have been...
The general secretary of Comisiones Obreras (CCOO), Unai Sordo, has urged this Thursday to promote a regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) based on a "very broad" vision and articulated around a great international convention, while expressing confidence that Spain can achieve full employment in a relatively near time horizon.On the...
UGT FICA and CCOO de Industria have signed the new state collective agreement for service stations, culminating the agreement reached in the Interconfederal Service of Mediation and Arbitration (SIMA) after introducing the necessary legal adaptations. The text guarantees accumulated salary increases of 6.4% during its validity, a review clause linked...
The 114th International Labour Conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO), which has been held in Geneva since June 1st, gave its approval this Friday to the Convention on Decent Work in Platform Work, whose objective is to strengthen the protection of those who carry out their activities through digital...
UGT has decided to fight the new agreement of the Spanish Textile Retail Association (ARTE), which brings together companies such as Inditex, Mango, Primark, and H&M, among other fashion chains, and which has been agreed upon with the CCOO and Fetico unions. The union maintains in a statement that the...
UGT has stated that in yesterday's meeting to negotiate the state collective agreement for large retail chains in the textile and footwear sector, which concluded with an agreement between the Retail Textile Spain Association (ARTE) —which includes Inditex, Mango, Primark, and H&M, among other fashion firms— and the CCOO and...
The second vice president of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, held a meeting this Thursday with the governor of the Province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, in which both agreed to condemn that the Argentine president, Javier Milei, is "destroying labor rights".During the meeting, both leaders expressed their concern about the...