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Antonio Garamendi, President of CEOE, believes that the initiative of the Ministry of Labor to launch public consultations to draft a royal decree regulating telework is out of place. The representative of employers has responded to the project criticizing that "it is neither the time nor the way to propose structural changes in the labor market." We must move the economy forward, "he said in a meeting held with the College of Economists.

Yesterday, the Ministry of Labor launched the procedure to establish a framework for teleworking, which until the arrival of the coronavirus was a marginal model in Spain, but which has been vital to carry out the activity of the companies that have been left standing with confinement. . Initial skepticism about the possibilities of the model has given way to the proposition that its advantages can be much more exploited in the labor market, where the Bank of Spain estimates that it could be implemented much more decisively than it has been up to now.

In its approach, Work establishes that these regulatory bases include legislating that the contractual conditions of a teleworker will be the same as those of another who ordinarily goes to the headquarters of the company. In addition, it indicates that companies must compensate teleworkers for the expenses they incur as a consequence of moving their activity outside the company's workplace. The experiment of teleworking has been with the ERTE the great tool to save the business fabric and employment in the three months of the state of alarm.

Until now CEOE had not indicated its position on the matter although, if you want to express your opinion, you have open the term given by the Government in public consultations.

Garamendi has clarified that the CEOE's position is to negotiate, both teleworking and other issues such as labor reform. "There are no problems in negotiating the labor reform next year, now you have to give international confidence about the Spanish economy and there are no ideological declarations," he said, referring to the controversial boost that part of the government wants to give to the repeal of the standard approved in 2012.

Omitting the Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz , the president of the employers has attributed to the vice president Nadia Calviño the credit of having given them confidence to return to the table of social dialogue, from which they rose after the parliamentary pact of PSOE and Podemos with Bildu with the repeal of the labor reform as the basis of the agreement. "Bildu only has to condemn the violence," he said after recalling the number of businessmen killed and extorted by ETA.

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