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Spain’s Workers’ Commissions (CCOO) is accusing a series of companies that deal with installation and maintenance of Teléfónica’s fibre optic network of having failed to respect a commitment, made three years ago, to employ at least 70% of the staff that work for them on a regular basis. Following an agreement first penned in 2015, and then supplemented in 2016 (see articles nº9058 and nº9503), sub-contractor companies of the Spanish broadband and telecommunications provider committed, following strike action from technicians, to improve the working conditions in which their installation staff work, given the unstable arrangements, via intermediaries or as freelance workers. At the time, technicians highlighted that they were just the final link in a long chain, tied to working under poorer conditions than those with the status of metal worker, a status they in principle should enjoy. The agreement set out that there would only be one tier between Telefónica and the technician and set 2018 as the date by which companies would have increased their staff numbers, reaching 70% on open-ended contracts. Having observed that eight companies have fallen short of the commitments made, the industry arm of the CCOO and the UGT-Fica union have initiated a procedure to bring the matter before the SIMA arbitration committee and then to court.
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