These are economically dependent workers who, despite meeting the legal requirements, the Inspection questions whether they really are.
According to Europapress, the president of UPTA, Eduardo Abad, has denounced that the Labor Inspection is fining companies up to 600,000 euros for having economically dependent workers (TRADES) who meet the conditions to be so and is forcing these become employed workers.
The representative of the self-employed organization has assured that up to 600 TRADES, which are mainly dedicated to direct marketing, could be "on the line due to this situation."
"This is solely the fault of the Labor Inspection and the distorted interpretation it is making of this figure," Abad said in statements to Europa Press. According to Abad, the companies that are being fined are turning these self-employed workers into employees, even though they meet the conditions to be TRADE.
"The Labor Inspection is 'uberizing and glovarizing' the entire labor market," highlighted the president of UPTA, after making it clear that the work carried out by these self-employed workers has nothing to do with the work that 'raider' can carry out. "They are perverting the labor market," he declared.
Furthermore, Abad has assured that companies are "fed up" with the inspections and persecution they are suffering to transfer their self-employed workers perfectly established as TRADES, and that they comply with all the dependency requirements established in the Self-Employed Worker Statute. to the General Regime.
"These self-employed workers, who are represented by UPTA, are beginning to be expelled from the world of self-employment as a result of the reports that the inspectors are carrying out," he noted.
Wrongly “paternalistic” action
For Abad, the Inspection is acting "in a paternalistic manner." "He is allegedly doing these self-employed workers a favor, talking about false self-employed workers, requesting a refund of the fee and fining the companies, when really these workers want to continue being TRADES."
Thus, he has pointed out that the TRADES that meet the requirements to be so want to continue being so, because they receive amounts much higher than what they can receive as employed workers and because of the time freedom and work flexibility that they have as workers of this modality.
"The free practice and choice of activity of a self-employed person for a business activity is being violated," Abad stressed, after making it clear that this figure existed "long before the 'raiders' and their particular ways of working." Likewise, he has denounced that the Labor Inspection has taken this maxim as the only one and has assured that it is acting in this way throughout the national territory. "TRADE is a figure that is perfectly supported and justified and if the Inspection does not like it, it is their problem," he added.
Fountain: europapress