CC OO complaint that more than 364.000 workers do extra hours without charging

Every week in Spain is working nearly seven million extra hours among the employed. Of these, about three million will not be charged, according to a study of CC OO, elaborated from the data of the economically active population survey (EPA). That report reveals, furthermore, that are 364.400 employees working hours of more without to collect them and other 415.400 those who do the charging. The calculations of the union point out that if you stop committing that fraud everyday, you could create a few 74.700 additional jobs in the Spanish economy and its corresponding social contributions.

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As has been gaining in the recovery, has grown the number of extra hours. Although there is now a change from what happened in the worst moments of the crisis, which is not charged (or not paid depending on the prism from which you look at it) have left to overcome to the that yes. However, their total number remains close to three million.

If these hours are converted into positions of full-time work, the calculations of CC OO suggest that this fraud costs the Spanish economy a few 74.700 jobs. This irregularity not only has as a consequence a lower creation of jobs; it also implies that Social Security receives less contributions.

Also, it costs money to institute proactive overtime hours charged. In this case, not because it's not listed, but because the contributions paid for Vdcasino them are lower than in the case of the ordinary time of work. The union has also calculated how many jobs equal these hours: 95.900. One aspect noteworthy in this study is that the extra hours are not distributed evenly among all the workers. In reality, they are a few 825.500 those who work above the day scheduled for it in employment contracts and in collective agreements. Of these, slightly less than half (364.400) would receive nothing.

“Those extra hours are not paid are a form of exploitation that is concentrated to a greater extent in jobs considered to be of higher quality: undefined, full-time, technical occupations and professionals in the services sector, carried out by men,” the report says.

The sector analysis reveals in which branches of activity are made more extra hours, paid and not paid. On the whole, stresses the manufacturing industry, with more than 1.1 million hours a week. In contrast, if you only take the ones that are left to pay the rating, leads the hospitality industry, with 418.000, followed by trade and repair of motor vehicles (345.000) and education (340.000).

this Whole situation changes if, instead of analysing absolute numbers are taken percentages. In this type of analysis highlights the financial sector, in which 94% of your overtime hours will not be charged. This data confirms one of the complaints common of the trade unions in the banking sector.

on the other hand, yesterday the economic daily Five Days ahead of the proposal that the Government has made to the social partners to reform the Statute of the Workers in the control of day. If finally adopted with this wording, the company will have every day, “the obligation to register the day of each worker [...] and should include the specific time of entry and exit”. In addition, it will establish the obligation that employees receive each month information on the number of ordinary hours and overtime they have done. In addition to those interested, also “the representatives of the workers shall be informed monthly by the employer about the compliance of the provisions of this section”.