Díaz calls the CEOE's initiative in the Canary Islands to report sick leave "illegal"

The Minister of Labor and second vice president of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, criticized this Thursday the initiative by the CEOE in the Canary Islands to create an anonymous tip box for fraudulent sick leave and absenteeism, given that it is "illegal", for which she asked the president of the employers' association, Antonio Garamendi, to withdraw it "immediately".

"It is extremely serious that Garamendi and the Spanish employers' association have opened an office for workers to report on workers who are ill. It is inhumane, in the first place, but it is also illegal," Díaz stated in statements to EFE in Geneva.

"It places Garamendi outside the law," insisted the head of Labor, who pointed out that "the times of political commissars in Spain are over."

Díaz anticipated that this controversial initiative will be brought before the Data Protection Agency.

The minister recalled that one of her first measures upon taking office was to repeal the article of the Workers' Statute that allowed the dismissal of people who were ill, and assured that the CEOE's new initiative is in the same vein of human rights violations.