In its session yesterday, Congress approved the new remote work law, which will toughen until 20% the sanctions for labor violations imposed by the Labor and Social Security Inspection, up to a maximum of almost one million euros.
The report of the Parliamentary Report that analyzed this bill has incorporated this amendment promoted by the Government, the PSOE and Podemos.
With it, the amount of the Inspection's sanctions will rise to 20%, so the highest sanction could reach up to 983,736 euros, when the largest amount was 819,780 in the current law.
The PSOE and Podemos justify this review of the sanctions included in the Law on Infractions and Sanctions in the Social Order "to guarantee its effectiveness, with respect to the principle of proportionality."
The amounts included in this law, collected in a consolidated text from 2000, have been subject to a single review, in 2007.
In any case, as stated in another amendment included in the project at the request of the PSOE and Podemos, infractions committed prior to the entry into force of the law, and therefore, of the new sanctioning regime, will be sanctioned in accordance with the amounts provided up to so.
The bill, which comes from the Royal Decree-Law that the Government approved in September, also incorporates amendments from Vox, Cs and ERC, although those of the first two are aimed at adapting the content of the law to the regulation already planned. in subsequent Decrees, such as others promoted by PSOE and Podemos, or assessments of a technical nature.
The new law includes four ERC amendments aimed at the regulation of teleworking by people with disabilities, in order to ensure that the means, equipment and tools are universally accessible.
Also another to consider the reference address that appears in the employment contract or, failing that, that of the company or center or physical place of work to consider the competent labor authority.
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