AGREEMENT - PVD

The company has never agreed with the art. 54 in the collective agreement.

The art. 54 in the collective agreement says that the employees shall have 5 minutes break every hour. The breaks are considered as working time, and cannot affect any of the other breaks mentioned en the collective agreement.

The company has never agreed with this article, as mentioned, and apparently neither has Marisol, the trade union CCOO in the company.

And lately we have seen that Marisol CCOO, is asking employees to sign a paper that, according to our opinion,  is against the art. 54 - which is against workers rights, the collective agreement and the Spanish law.

Due to that fact that Marisol CCOO, did not agree with the collective agreement, we have had many negotiations with many difficulties, with the company, and we even had to get assistant from ITC (Inspeccion de Trabell Catalunya), who came out with a report in our favour.

But - thanks to our hard work, we do now have an agreement with the company about the PVD breaks. We will together, UGT and the company, investigate, project by project, how the PVD break can be implemented and organised, in the daily routines, without the installed software, without any inconveniences for the employees, and without affecting the project negatively. 

This will properly take a couple of months, but it will be worth it.