BrusselsEuropean justice once again rules against Spain for the abuse of long-term interim workers in public administrations across the State. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled this Tuesday that the measures provided for by Spanish legislation to sanction and compensate for the “abusive use” of this type of worker in the public sector. Specifically, the Luxembourg court concludes that measures such as the transformation of these temporary contracts into a permanent but not fixed employment relationship, the payment of compensation to the worker at the time of termination of the employment relationship, or, among others, the call for selection processes that take into account the previous experience of the worker in question, “are not in conformity” with EU law.
In this way, the court of highest instance of European justice has ruled that these measures “do not seem to adequately sanction the abusive use” by the various administrations across the State of long-term interim workers and concludes that “they also do not eliminate the consequences of non-compliance with European Union law” by Spain in labor matters”.