Employers to entrepreneurs: the corporate adaptability through the devastation of labour rights

Abstract

The recent labour reforms have not only led to a significant lowering of protection standards for workers, but have also modified defining structural principles of wage labour in Spain, which have traditionally been insurmountable margins for the exercise of power management; specifically, legislation have proceeded to inadequate translation of the enterprise risk to workers in situations such as dismissal or significant changes of the labour contract. The third axis of this process, the reform of the collective bargaining system, dismantles collectively agreed guarantees, thereby reducing the capacity and role of collective bargaining and union representatives of workers. Simultaneously, there has been an articulated speech on promoting the entrepreneur, which originated in EU guidelines, sustains an inconsistent, inaccurate and counterproductive development legislation for the generation of a stable and sustainable business sector policy development, and in any case it is unjustifiable as an engine of policy reforms.