The digital newspaper Valencia Plaza has published an opinion article by the director of the Legal-Labor area of Tomarial, Santiago Blanes Mompó, entitled "ERTE and labor relations in times of COVID-19." From this link you can read the full article at Valencia Plaza.
The author criticizes the lack of clarity in much of the labor legislation that has been drawn up as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and emphasizes the definition of "force majeure" for the purposes of this extraordinary situation, something that he considers unnecessary. : "What this new definition of the concept of force majeure for the purposes of COVID-19 has brought is insecurity, since on many occasions companies have doubted, and continue to do so, whether or not their situation fell" into this category.
Santiago Blanes also highlights the different interpretations of the legislation in different autonomous communities, as well as the difficulty in processing ERTEs before the Administration. In his opinion, there are many issues that have increased the uncertainty regarding the day after and that make it difficult to overcome this extremely difficult situation. Santiago Blanes is committed to workers and companies to get ahead: «In the workplace, the correct decisions necessarily go through safeguarding employment, so we must ensure the continuity of the productive system and our business fabric. Make no mistake: the company-worker or worker-company binomial is the one that has always, in this country and in so many others, allowed us to live and support ourselves. If there is no company, there is no job.
