Alejandra Olcese
Updated Wednesday, February 14, 2024-00:33
Standard Companies must have a sustainable mobility plan for their workers in two years
The
Sustainable Mobility Law
approved this Tuesday by the Council of Ministers establishes that all
companies
that have work centers with more than
500 employees
or shifts in which 250 coincide have the obligation to
negotiate
a mobility plan
with the legal representation of the workers.
sustainable
- to facilitate the transfer of workers by public transport or, in its absence, collective transport (buses) or the possibility of teleworking-; but in cases where this representation does not exist, they must
negotiate it with the majority unions
in the sector, which in most cases are
UGT and CCOO.
This is the same model implemented for
equality plans
, which have generated a real situation of collapse in these organizations. In practice, the majority unions
"cannot cope"
to answer all the calls from companies that need them to come to negotiate their plan, according to union sources admitted to EL MUNDO, which causes
delays
in negotiations and in some cases has collateral effects. , since companies that do not have an equality plan cannot contract with the Administration or receive subsidies, among others.
Unions
not only do not have
enough members
but also have to face a
significant
financial
outlay to carry out this work
.
UGT
alone
estimates
the cost of negotiating the equality plans at
15 million euros
, a budget that goes into paying the negotiators and also in resources and training for the rest. The union explains that when companies do have legal representation of the workers, that is, employees who have stood for union elections in this case by UGT, they are not sufficiently trained to know what they have to negotiate, hence the central office has to help them, with the cost that this entails.
Although the Government is aware that this type of negotiation model generates
bottlenecks
, it has opted on this occasion for the same formula for
mobility plans
, although these will only affect companies with work centers of more than 500. workers or in which 250 coincide simultaneously.
Alfredo Aspra
, founding partner of
Labormatters Abogados
, explains to this medium that having legal representation of workers is a decision that depends on the social part and is voluntary, it is not associated with reaching a certain threshold of workers. In fact, it is common for companies in the technology sector, for example, or startups that have grown a lot not to have it. "There are companies that do not have this representation, so the new rule will mean
more work for the unions
and will contribute to
their collapse
," he says.
Despite involving collective bargaining,
the norm has not been negotiated with UGT and CCOO,
who would have liked to be able to give their opinion and convey to the Government the increase in work that it represents for their organizations, when they are already at the limit of their possibilities. .
The norm approved today is not new, in any case, since it was in
parliamentary processing
when President Pedro Sánchez decided to advance the general elections to July last year. Now it has been rescued by the Executive and approved by the Council of Ministers to comply with one of the milestones agreed with Brussels in the Recovery Plan.