The general secretaries of CCOO and UGT in the Canary Islands, Inocencio González and Manuel Navarro, have stated that more than 200,000 workers will benefit from the labor reform in the islands due to the application of sector agreements and the renewal of salary tables.
Chambermaids and construction and agriculture workers are some of the profiles that will benefit the most from the reform that has just been approved and that, according to the unions, mainly favors people who are in precarious situations and those who are not subject to the agreement of their sector, but rather that of the company for which they work, and also those who do not even have an agreement or a full-time contract or reach the minimum interprofessional wage.
Young people will also be favored in the Canary Islands, where 59% of them are unemployed, as the regulation of the labor market will mean that they can access employment through training contracts that companies could not offer them until now, the leader of UGT has detailed.
The general secretary of CCOO has highlighted that the disappearance of the contract for specific services will directly affect 190,000 workers, who will have another more stable type of contract.
He has valued the fact that the sector agreement prevails over the company agreement and the "very important" impact that it will have because, he said, this tool has been used for ten years to lower wages.
"Now (the employers) will not be able to have that escape route," said González, who believes that the reform will also be in favor of stability and reducing layoffs, since companies will have a mechanism so that in certain cases workers do not lose their jobs and at the same time the company can discharge itself through the bonus of salary costs until it recovers.
He also indicated that the Canary Islands is one of the most benefited communities due to its type of productive fabric and the labor relations that "are suffered".
"There is an important sector of the working population of the Canary Islands that will benefit" from having more stable jobs, with better salaries and more protected, added the leader of CCOO.
In the same vein, Manuel Navarro, from UGT, applauded the reform in the Canary Islands because "many" workers who are subcontracted outside the agreement will benefit from it, who will improve their salary conditions.
