Labor inspectors threaten the government with their first great strike

Lucia Palacios Madrid

"The temporality with labor reform is not going to end, but with a reinforcement of the inspection".This is one of the many arguments that the eight trade union organizations used on Tuesday - among those listed by CC OO, UGT, CSIF and the Labor Inspectors Union (SITSS) - to demand the Government to comply with the agreement reached last monthJuly to respond to the shortcomings suffered by this group.Otherwise, they will convene a strike in the first quarter of the year, they warned."It would be the first in the history of all the agency's staff, both inspectors, sub -inspectors and administrative staff," Ana Ercoreca, president of SITSS, told a press conference..

Labor inspection barely reaches 3.000 troops, a meager figure for the level of occupation that Spain has and for the many tasks they have to undertake, also taking into account that the Executive charges them with more and more action plans.

The data show that Spain has a proportion of just one labor inspector per 15.000 people of active population, when countries like Italy have a ratio of one for every 7.500 employees or even France one for every 5.000.It is also far from the ILO recommendation, which advises to have an official for every 10.000 busy.

That is why one of the great claims demanded by the collective is to increase the template.They consider that they would take 1.250 people to reach an optimal level to perform their work correctly, although they reduced this claim in the July agreement that they reached with the Ministry of Labor and who, according to the Hacienda, has blocked.

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"A Labor Inspector in Madrid has a continuous average of 120 files pending action between those that are ended and those that are opened," explain sources from the department.«This leads us to initiate actions on many occasions so late that the factors that are denounced by the workers can no longer be checked.Or worse, leads us to have to select which workers help and which no, ”they warn.

Ministry workers criticize that "today, inspection is a lottery that to very few companies, taking into account the amount of existing labor and social security fraud and the available means, especially humans".

To achieve this higher workforce, another aspect that would have to improve is the public employment offer, since the unions calculate that about 25% of vacancies remain without covering, since students opt for other more competitive placesand with better conditions.In fact, another of the measures they had agreed in July was to eliminate the salary gap, as well as achieve greater digitalization.

And it is that to this lack of unattractive troops and conditions, other faces are joined as a lack of material resources and, in turn, an excess of workload that has been increasing in recent years, which makes it impossible for them to ensuredignity for compliance with labor legislation.

«The temporality or precariousness of labor reform will not be eliminated, but with labor reform and a strengthening of inspection.If the media is not reinforced and reinforced, these labor reforms will be on wet paper.The Eiffel Tower was not built only with plans, ”said Ercoreca, which stressed that a new work system is necessary.