The unions denounce that the lack of staff and resources has worsened and accuse the government of “an obvious lack of commitment” to comply with the signed agreement
The labor inspectors are returning to the fray after a truce of a few months and announcing that they are resuming their mobilization process in the face of “a situation bordering on disaster”. This was denounced on Monday in a statement from the main trade unions representing the group, including the UGT, CC OO, CSIF and the Union of Labor and Social Security Inspectors (SITSS).
The eight signatories assure that the “deficiencies” in the field of inspection persist, both in terms of personnel, which are very poor, and technical and organizational resources, which are too precarious. In that sense, they accused the government of “an obvious lack of political commitment” to implement the agreement signed with them on July 7, 2021, configuring a new inspection model.
The unions warn that if last March, when they called off the first general strike, the shortcomings the organization had suffered were already “serious”, the time that has passed since, half a year, “has done nothing more than intensify them. In any case, they warn that “the shock plan designed by the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration has failed to provide a solution and has even become an additional problem since the remuneration characteristics of the scarce staff have been included. They break with the criteria that have been in force in the organization for years, resulting in a double pay scale and unjustified discrimination.
For that reason, they describe this plan as a “temporary patch” and express their concern at the “sluggishness and irresponsible forgetfulness with which this government appears determined to hide the structural problems of an organization that is subject to extra tasks every day, where the objectives pursued are more ambitious every day, where the transformations taking place in the labor market demand it, but where the real strength to cope is clearly insufficient and leads without a doubt to a completely unavoidable failure» .
In this complex scenario, labor inspectors accuse the Treasury and Labor Departments of “laziness” and of “not finding a hole” over the past six months to find and address “final solutions.”
Source: La Verdad
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