Legal regime of credit union hours: Main applications problems

Abstract

The Spanish labor law contains in art. 68 ET a series of guarantees and facilities for workers representatives through which allow an adequate and effective development of their representative function. One of those guarantees is called as «credit union hours». It is consisting of the provision of workers representatives of a number of hours that must engage in the exercise of representative functions and also have paid character. Despite being a classic institution in the Spanish law, the legal regulation of this guarantee has been particularly controversial, thereby giving rise multiple applications problems that have led to the emergence of an extensive legal and jurisprudential doctrine aimed to address such deficiencies regulation. This paper, it focuses on the critical analysis of the legal regime of credit union hours, the hermeneutical problems and the solutions given by the courts.