The Ministry of Labor, employers and unions have taken up the pending regulations on teleworking, and there has been a change that was among the requests of the employers.

The new document for the draft law considers that remote work requires a minimum of 30% of the working day in remote mode, not the 20% previously set.

One of the reasons for friction in the negotiations lies in that percentage, a limit that in the last tests, in early August, remained at the aforementioned 20%, a fifth of the total.

That figure would be fulfilled if one day a week, for example on Friday, the employee worked from home

, something that is possible in many Spanish companies.

Automatically, the companies would have to cover certain expenses of all those employees and also certify that the work is carried out in the appropriate conditions, also sanitary.

The CEOE and Cepyme employers' associations have sought that the limit be set at 30% and the new text has ended up picking up that new limit.

The new meeting was held this morning until the beginning of the afternoon, a meeting that precedes the one that would take place on Friday to discuss an extension of the working conditions linked to the ERTE in this pandemic.

The new draft presented this Tuesday by Yolanda Díaz's team to social agents (employers and unions) also stated that the company will be able to take "the measures it deems most appropriate for

monitoring and control

" over the employee, so that it can be verified the fulfillment of their labor obligations, although the "dignity" of the worker must be respected.

Officials remain outside the regulations

, so that public administration personnel would be governed in accordance with article 13 of the Workers' Statute.

Representatives of this group, such as the Central Sindical Independiente y de Servants (CSIF), have been unsuccessfully demanding the Executive to enable the new teleworking law for public administrations, "as the department of Carolina had promised Darias [minister of the branch], at the beginning of the summer ".

"We cannot make a law that does not serve to regulate telework," Pepe Álvarez, secretary general of the UGT, warned early in the morning;

In his opinion,

remote activity has been a "bargain" for companies

during the pandemic.

Álvarez asked from the UGT "to expedite the Telework Law in a not very long period of time", under the formula of a royal decree law.

Álvarez advocates resolving the negotiation this month: "I would like it to be no more than two weeks and for the implementation process to begin then."

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