UP and PSOE agree to increase the penalties to punish employers who repeatedly fail to comply with labor rights

MADRID, 9 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

PSOE and Unidas Podemos have agreed to punish employers who perpetrate repeated breaches or regularly suppress labor rights or agreed working conditions, both in contracts and agreements, with up to six years in prison.

This is reflected in one of the joint amendments to the bill to repeal the crime of sedition and replace it with aggravated public disorder, also including a new point to article 311 of the Penal Code, which establishes cases of crimes against labor rights.

Specifically, a first section is included with prison sentences of six months to six years, and a fine of six to twelve months, for those who "through deceit or abuse of a situation of need", impose "working conditions" on the workers at their service. or Social Security that harm, suppress or restrict the rights that they have recognized by legal provisions, collective agreements or individual contract".

"The same penalties will be imposed on whoever imposes illegal conditions on their workers through their hiring under formulas unrelated to the employment contract, or maintains them against a requirement or administrative sanction."

The second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, has already advanced that she was working with Justice and the Prosecutor's Office to reform crimes in the workplace, with the aim of being able to purify criminal responsibilities in the courts.

Today on social networks, he highlighted that after this pact, via amendment, the "defense of labor rights in flagrant cases of injustice will be guaranteed by the Penal Code", with a wording so that "repeated breaches" of labor legislation do not go unpunished

The president of the United Podemos parliamentary group in Congress, Jaume Asens, explained that penalties are being increased for businessmen who systematically fail to comply with labor legislation and prevent them from getting off scot-free, as he believes is the case now. given that "it pays more for them to pay the fine than to comply with the law".