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By 2017 the Inspectorate plans to verify the situation of 525 companies in Alicante and 1,404 across the whole Community with this objective. Initially, if the company does not have any control mechanism of the day but there are no indications of excessive time, only a request will be made. However, if there is a prior complaint or the visit indicates that overtime is not being paid, the Inspectorate will assume that the absence of hourly controls is a deliberate way of circumventing the payment for work to employees and will impose a penalty which ranges from 60 euros, in the smallest cases, to 187,515 in the most serious and repeated cases. In addition to the visits scheduled specifically for this purpose, the inspectors will also check the existence of these systems if they have to go to a company as a result of an accident or a complaint for another labour matter.
he Labour Inspectorate is launching a campaign to ensure that companies comply with their obligation to register actual working day hours. More than 675 checks are planned into overtime hours and abuses of part-time employment will also be monitored. The Labor Inspectorate has decided to put a stop to the unpaid overtime that takes place in numerous companies and, in addition to the obvious illegality, is an exploitation of employees that continues to increase ever since the economic crisis.
CLAMPDOWN ON WORKER HOURS FRAUD ACROSS THE REGION Therefore, for the next year alone, the public body plans to carry out a minimum of 675 inspections across the province - 1,919 in the entire Valencian Community - to control these abuses through two specific campaigns. The first of these campaigns will focus on the abuses that occur with false part-time contracts, such as when a worker is forced to accept a part-time or hourly job but made to work a full day. The 150 inspections in Alicante will be selected after crossing data with
Social Security to detect anomalies explained head of the Labour Inspection in the Valencian Community, Eusebio Ortiz. Candidates for a visit will be those companies that have a very significant percentage of their staff recruited on a part-time basis or those who have employees with days that attract attention, such as only one hour a day or even just one hour a week. “Situations that already indicate that there may be some irregularity will be investigated, since it is very difficult to perform the task in such a short space
of time.� The second campaign, which has been developed since last September aims to ensure that companies comply with their legal obligation to have control systems that effectively verify the actual working day. So far, companies were not required to have these checks if overtime was not being paid, but three recent judgments by the Audiencia Nacional regarding the situation of bank employees have made it clear that all companies must have these systems and count the time their employees work.
Warning The start of this campaign has already warned some business organisations such as Cepyme Alicante, whose
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