The president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, stated yesterday at the inauguration of the autonomous conference '"The labor reform. Support for companies, protection of employment and improvement of working conditions" that the new employment regulations will have a particularly positive impact on the archipelago, according to reports the news portal of the Government of the Canary Islands.
Although the regulation will not fully come into effect until next Friday, April 1, the benefits have already begun to be reflected in the data from the first month of partial implementation of the reform, with 19% of permanent contracts in January 2022, about 9 points more than the usual average, while in February that figure rose to 27%.
"The reform is especially beneficial for the Canary Islands, where already in the first months of the year the percentage of permanent contracts has substantially increased, and ERTEs are also integrated into the ordinary regulations, with the Archipelago being one of the communities most affected by both aspects,” explained the president.
It should be noted that the islands is one of the communities with the highest percentage of temporary employment, exceeding the Spanish average by up to 6 points in the last quarter of 2021, with 31.51% of temporary contracts, especially in the age group under 25 years, according to the latest Active Population Survey.
Torres emphasized that it has been of vital importance that the reform had the consensus of employers and unions, since, according to Elena Máñez, the Minister of Economy, Knowledge and Employment, the vast majority of agreements on labor matters have gone ahead thanks to these supports.
The day included presentations by professors of Labor Law, such as Gloria Rojas, from the University of La Laguna, or Jesús Cruz, from the University of Seville and president of the National Advisory Commission for Collective Agreements, where topics such as the new forms of temporary hiring, the application of collective agreements in the case of subcontracting, collective bargaining or the new ERTEs and the RED Mechanism were discussed.
In addition, the state organizations that signed the labor reform also participated, such as the CEOE, Cepyme, UGT and CC.OO, as well as the general director of Labor and the territorial director in the Canary Islands of the Labor and Social Security Inspectorate, Francisco Guindín.
“The consensus reached through social dialogue, with a country vision in which all parties renounced part of their demands, in order to advance our labor market”, concluded Gustavo Santana, Deputy Minister of Employment and moderator of the table.
