Dear employer, the unemployment in our country are brutal and the increase is rapid and intense, making Spain as the country that has most of Europe, and also including Catalonia. Very briefly, the cause of unemployment is the destruction of existing jobs in all sectors but especially in services and in construction, and is focused on non-renewal of temporary contracts, as permanent contracts, and even rose.
All experts agree that it is a structural problem with the components of the economic model of labor relations regulatory framework, and I would add, of ways of doing business and unions.
Why the EU average (27) is 8.9% - EU (16) 9.5%? Why are seventeen countries ranging from 3.2% to 8.7%? Why Spain is 18.7% occupied and the second is 16.3% (Lithuania), 2.4 points difference?
In full debate on labor reform, I think it would hurt those who we look to negotiate what the seventeen countries that reach a maximum at 8.7%, not just in terms of labor relations but in terms of economic model and above all cultural. How to understand the work in those countries? Why being in crisis and we do not have our unemployment rate? Only economic model?
For some time I think that neither the representatives of employers or representatives of asalariats have yet understood what world we live. Remain rooted in the dialectic of Marxist and neoclassical paradigms of traditional production factors, capital and labor, when today there is not a factor and conflict is essential knowledge. We are in complementarity, not conflict. Capital will only yield knowledge, not the gains of labor, and consequently, what sense is it all focused on the flexibility of labor costs and cheap dismissals? Employees are not working, employees are knowledge, so we can discuss how to make it more efficient and not make it cheaper. Knowledge has a price and upward, and the work is priced low. If the problem is that our economic model is that knowledge work, do not equal rules for everyone. Penalize employers and employees in the world of "work" and first employers and employees in the world of knowledge, and perhaps the first move you will want to take advantage and according also to change the economic model.
It's just a thought, but I find frustrating is that more than four million unemployed in the labor reform debate is the same as ten years ago.
Joseph Albet
29/07/2009 at 17:54
Very successful your article. The economy based on production and not based on productivity and excellence, as is the case in our country, making unemployment rates are the highest in Europe, being directly proportional to the degree of protection of "potato state". We live in a familiar situation rentisme, we must espabilar
30/07/2009 at 12:13
Totally agree Joseph.
30 years ago I wanted to study and asked if a small schedule change, employers will put their hands. 10 years ago businessmen themselves surprised that people do not want to be, nor even by the company ... For some entrepreneurs, but always lies in the hands of what they should do-workers. And the last of what they should do-entrepreneurs.
I know many do not know: what does it cost for the company leading the work they do? We are not against criteria that employers or workers move from a debate that leads nowhere. If business is so close for lack of business strategy and often a lack of involvement by employees. We do not know if there is no company, no project, and if there is no project which draw revenue?
The lack of mutual trust will leave us all in the gutter. We need business people need and what works and what all do something attractive to the market at competitive prices. I do not see what is so difficult to understand ...
30/07/2009 at 13:44
Very well, Joseph. How right you have! Yours is an innovative ide, assuming both sides of the conflict would move society towards models more competitive and rewarding, and for both parties. It is clear that "certain employees" should be willing to take the most effort required the habit of studying and leave once and for all laziness continue to be formed. Moreover, the company should be willing to assume the cost, the cost of time dedicated to the study and perhaps the cost of these employees pose ideas and / or proppossessin changes on the development of the activity of the company. The latter could become uncomfortable for some business? Missing you each and every layer of society seriously understand that EVERYONE is in the same boat. I hope you find the echo reflection it deserves!. Best summer vacation!!