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The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has charged against the Government of Spain for prohibiting dismissals alleging COVID-19 related causes, a measure that in her opinion is "illegal" and will cause companies to close " in full "and with it" massive layoffs ".

The head of the Madrid Executive has criticized via Twitter the decision not to allow layoffs to remove causes related to the coronavirus and to further control the causes alleged in the thousands of ERTE applied these weeks with sanctions for companies that misuse them.

"Without social dialogue, illegally and attacking the freedom of business, the government decides to prohibit dismissal," the 'popular' leader has criticized, believing that the result will be that "instead of dismissals, the company will close entirely" .

And he underlines: "Instead of layoffs there will be massive layoffs. Entrepreneurs are the key to recovery."

The Government has decreed that the temporary employment regulation files (ERTE) that are caused by the coronavirus crisis and the force majeure modality may not extend beyond the duration of the state of alarm.

In addition, objective dismissals that allude to "force majeure and economic, technical, organizational and production causes" by COVID-19 as justification are prohibited and if they are undertaken, they will be a priori inadmissible.

Doubtful constitutionality

For his part, the president of Foment del Treball, Josep Sánchez Llibre, criticized this Saturday the government's agreement to prohibit by law the dismissal due to force majeure and for economic, organizational, technical and production reasons: he considers it a "hasty decision , very serious, unilateral and unjustified, of dubious constitutionality that violates the freedom of business ".

"The measures contained in Royal Decree Law 9/2020, of March 27, represent a breakdown of the basic principles of our Ordinance, which torpedo the waterline of companies at a crucial moment," the employers' association has reproached in a statement. .

He believes that the measures contravene the principle of freedom of enterprise and regrets that "an unusual limitation is being established of the entrepreneurial powers and faculties that are essential from an organizational point of view."

He warns that the decision puts at risk the companies' possibilities of overcoming "the supervening difficulties they have encountered", and considers that the agreement conveys mistrust in the responsibility of the businessmen.

Foment states that "the only possible way out is mutual trust and the provision of financial, economic and labor mechanisms that provide oxygen to companies" in the face of the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on companies and workers, and calls for more flexibility instruments .

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