Three years after the adoption of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), this report reviews the quality of the social partners’ involvement in 2023 in the ongoing implementation of reforms and investments funded by that initiative. It also examines the quality of their involvement in the prepa
This report analyses the role of social dialogue and collective bargaining in addressing the challenges created or exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic in the hospital sector. It also explores whether existing social dialogue and collective bargaining processes at national level were adapted in
On 29 January 2009, the management and trade union representatives of the Sony [1] plant in Viladecavalls in the province of Barcelona in northeast Spain reached a preliminary agreement (in Spanish, 7Kb PDF) [2] involving the withdrawal of the redundancy procedure [3] affecting 275 workers that the
On 30 January 2009, at a working session of the Social Dialogue Monitoring Commission, the social partners agreed on the need to promote social dialogue [1]. The social partners included representatives, on the trade union side, of the Confederación Sindical de Comisiones Obreras (CC.OO [2], Trade
The Minister of Labour and Immigration, Celestino Corbacho, and Minister of Education, Social Affairs and Sport, Mercedes Cabrera, presented a draft of their reform proposals for the Spanish vocational training [1] system on 20 October 2008. The proposal is among the measures agreed by the
The ninth Confederal Congress of the Trade Union Confederation of Workers’ Commissions (Confederación Sindical de Comisiones Obreras, CCOO [1]), the largest trade union organisation in Spain, was held in Madrid on 17–20 December 2008. The 1,001 delegates who attended the congress, representing the
Companies in the Spanish motor manufacturing sector have presented redundancy procedures, a flexible form of workforce adjustment that they can apply in a series of economic, technical and organisational situations. The job cuts affect in particular the northeastern province of Barcelona in the
On 14 October 2008, the Spanish Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and the President of the main opposition People’s Party (Partido Popular, PP [1]), Mariano Rajoy, agreed to start negotiations on the Toledo Pact – a report on the future reform of Spain’s social security system, agreed by
The Spanish air transport sector has experienced strong growth in recent years, leading to an increase in the number of operators and greater competition. Over the last year, however, the continuing increase in fuel prices and decrease in business due to the global economic crisis have threatened
The recent expansionary cycle in the Spanish economy was largely based on the booming property market. Between 1998 and 2007, the gross value added of the construction sector grew at an average annual rate of 5.9%, thereby exceeding the 3.8% growth in gross domestic product (GDP). In fact
On 29 July 2008, the government and social partners agreed on a ‘Declaration of principles for the promotion of the economy, employment, competitiveness and social progress’, which sets out the social dialogue agenda for the coming years. The social partners involved were the Spanish Confederation
In July 2008, the National Statistics Institute (Instituto Nacional de Estadística, INE [1]) published the 2007 findings on industrial accidents and occupational illnesses obtained from the Survey of the Active Population (/Encuesta de Población Activa/, EPA [2]). The EPA consists of a series of
