Okay, we all know there has to be some major belt tightening and the German government have made it clear that they don’t think that Spain is going to remain solvent for more than the next five minutes, but was it really necessary to slip the latest labour reforms in under the wire while the whole country was watching the football yesterday?
Bad enough to get beat in a game of football (and by Switzerland at that) but even worse to lose some of the meagre severance allowances that had previously been assured under labor law.
In a peculiar bid to encourage employers to hire more people, the Spanish government has just made it a damn sight easier for them to fire the staff they already have.
Even when the system required 45 days of pay for every year worked, some dodgy employers (like this joker) found every trick in the book to get out of paying employees’ severance pay.
Now when an worker is made redundant he or she is only entitled to 33 days pay per year worked and where before the company had to show reasonable cause for firing an employee now they only have to display an economic justification for doing so.
This bite out of workers’ rights seems to have been accepted very stoically. If my neighbours were taking it on the chin and saying, well its for the good of the country, I would understand but there seems to be no local discussion at all.
Had this trick been pulled in militant France, there would be riots in the streets and heads would roll. Touch one day of their public holidays and the French go postal and yet grab money out of the pocket of those made unemployed in Spain and no-one blinks.
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