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06 June 2020 In Spain the Ministry of Labor and the Social Economy wants to go beyond the emergency and aims to pass a new law regulating teleworking smart working or remote work) to guarantee workers who voluntarily accept this method equal income and labor rights.

To do so, it launched a public consultation on its website, which will serve to draw up a draft legislation on the conditions for the supply of remote work. 

The aim is to balance the use of this new form of paid job offer with the advantages it brings to companies and workers, taking into account the "voluntary and reversible" nature, the "equal treatment" that must be guaranteed. in particular as regards remuneration, including compensation for expenses, promotion and professional training or the exercise of collective rights.

The regulation should also include maximum working times and minimum rest times, flexible distribution of working hours and preventive aspects related to physical and mental fatigue, the use of video screens and the risks of isolation.

The Spanish ministry admits that teleworking offers "significant benefits" such as a better reconciliation of personal and family working life, reduced costs in offices and savings on travel or a decrease in absenteeism, but also presents possible "disadvantages" such as " tecnostress ", continuous working hours, permanent digital connectivity, greater occupational isolation and transfer of production costs to the person who works without pay, among others. He therefore considers it necessary to establish a new regulation that balances both aspects and provides "certainties" to workers and businesses.

After the emergency phase, it was understood, in short, that the real impact of teleworking, increased "exponentially" by the Covid-19 pandemic, highlighted "the advantages and weaknesses" and the need to tackle its regulation by a "security, certainty and transparency" legal framework.