Evolution of Temporary Employment Regulation Files: Special Reference to Royal Decree-Law 38/2021, February 28

ABSTRACT

The temporary employment regulation files have been one of the instruments most used by our companies in recent years. These instruments will be analyzed in these lines in three phases based on the social and regulatory context. First, it will begin with the stage prior to the emergence of Covid-19, that is, what is established by the 2015 legislator, fundamentally in article 47 of the Workers' Statute. Subsequently, the evolution that this flexibility and maintenance of employment mechanism has had will be explained from the declaration of the state of alarm on March 14, 2020, until the publication of the recent Royal Decree-Law 32/2020, of October 28. And, finally, in relation to this rule, the changes made by the legislator, with the prior agreement of the social agents, in the temporary employment regulation files will be analyzed.