¿Tomas café fuera de la oficina? El control horario se endurece con la reducción de la jornada laboral

¿Tomas café fuera de la oficina? El control horario se endurece con la reducción de la jornada laboral

The article examines the approval in Spain of new legislation aimed at reducing working hours and strengthening workers’ rights through a digitalized time-tracking system. This measure mandates that clock-in and clock-out records must be personal and mandatory, ensuring traceability of ordinary, overtime, and supplementary hours. The primary objective is to provide the Labor Inspectorate with remote, real-time oversight, ensuring that the right to digital disconnection is respected and that work interruptions are properly identified. The reform introduces significantly stricter penalties, shifting from company-wide fines to individualized sanctions for each non-compliant worker, with amounts that can exceed €10,000. This approach aims to deter companies from non-compliance, particularly when excessive overtime or lack of rest poses risks to occupational health and safety. In serious cases affecting employees’ physical integrity or life, penalties can reach extremely high levels based on occupational risk prevention regulations. This law is relevant to open data because it introduces the obligation to generate structured, traceable digital records of working hours. Implementing a monitoring system that enables external oversight implies the need to standardize and potentially open these administrative data, facilitating public auditing and transparency in working conditions. This illustrates how labor regulation policies drive the creation of public datasets that enable real-time monitoring of compliance with social rights.

Source: larazon.es
Published on 2025-02-26