INTERNATIONAL WEEK OF ACTION STARTING JANUARY 12
As we have been informing for the last month, the CNT-AIT Salamanca has started a conflict against the telemarketing company Arvato-Qualytel. The conflict is motivated by the model of employment in this company, based on contracts through temporary work agencies Adecco and Randstad.
In this way Arvato-Qualytel has the option to freely dismiss any worker by letting the contract expire, but this is not all. We can add up all the rights lost by the workers contracted by the temporary work agencies, which means no paid vacations, fewer days off if a relative is hospitalized, application of the Collective Agreement for Temporary Work Agencies instead of the one for Contact Centers and the lack of any compensation when fired.
To cover stable work places under temporary contracts is clearly illegal and the work inspection has confirmed this over 6 months ago, but it is cheaper for Arvato-Qualytel to pay the penalties than to recognize what is evident: that 40 percent of the staff is contracted through a temporary work agency when they are really the employees of the company. Tired of this scam, various comrades of the CNT-AIT started a case, created a union section in the company together with workers contracted directly by Arvato-Qualytel, making demands to the company in matters of the method of employment, health and safety, breaks and salaries. The response of the company was negative and the dismissal through „expiration of the contract” of the comrades in the union who were employed by the temporary work agency, who are waiting for a court case. This is when the conflict was made public, concentrating on demands for the direct and indefinite employment of the workers contracted by the tempory work agencies and the reinstatement of the dismissed comrades.