Canary Islands, the only autonomous community that maintains reinforcements from the inspection to fight its structural submerged economy, plans to bring to light 500 more irregular jobs with a special plan that begins this Monday, which would reach the end of the year with 5,000 regularized jobs.
This was estimated by the General Director of Labor of the Government of the Canary Islands, José Ramón Rodríguez, and the territorial director of the Labor Inspection, Francisco Guindín, when announcing the details of this Special Reinforcement Plan for the Inspection Action.
This action will be carried out on the islands "by surprise" until November 24 with the collaboration of 24 officials from other regions, also from Valencia and Castellón, despite the deadly dana that has affected that community, they have highlighted and appreciated.
Rodríguez has detailed that this special plan will involve the execution of a thousand actions, whose results are estimated to be similar to those obtained last year, when it was possible to bring to light 10% of the total.
Between January and October of this year, the Labor Inspection has managed to "extract" 4,584 jobs in the Canary Islands from the submerged economy, a figure that is expected to reach 5,000 with this reinforcement, which is planned to be repeated next year, according to Rodríguez.
The territorial director of the Labor Inspection, Francisco Guindín, has reported that these inspections against the submerged economy, in addition to those carried out throughout the year in the islands, will be carried out by inspectors and sub-inspectors, which will mean the second plan of these characteristics that is promoted in the current legislature and the sixth that is done in this community.
For this, they will go to work centers previously selected by the inspection chiefs because there are indications of the existence of a submerged economy in order to bring to light irregular jobs with sanctions that can range between 3,750 euros for a lack of registration and 12,000 euros, in the case of a worker who is receiving unemployment benefits or a foreigner without a work permit, Guindín has referred.
Although he has assured that "the submerged economy affects all sectors" in the islands, the inspections will be intensified in the hotel industry, restaurants, services and commerce, as they are more protagonists.
Detecting workers who are not registered or who are registered but for very few hours, that is, under-contribution, fraudulent partial contracts, workers receiving unemployment benefits or foreigners without work permits are the objectives of these reinforcement plans.
Once the sanctioning procedure has begun "there is no second chance", the employer must regularize the worker that he kept in the submerged economy, another thing is that, the next day, he dismisses him, "which happens sometimes, in 5% of the cases, to which the Inspection is also attentive".
