Launch of information campaign on good labor practices in agriculture
The agricultural organization COAG has developed an information package on the Spanish legislative developments related to the recruitment and risk prevention, and a video that summarizes the most important aspects of the contractual relationship between employer and employee. This initiative has the support of the Department of Immigration of the Ministry of Employment and Social Security and the European Social Fund.
Under the motto “Commitment to agricultural employment” COAG has developed a “Guide to Good Practice and New Labor Relations of the agricultural sector” which includes a very didactic way all the rights and obligations of employers and employees regarding to hiring, collective agreements, social security, accommodation for migrant workers, occupational hazards and integration and coexistence.
The guide also presents translated. This material is supplemented by an explanatory video, in just 3 minutes, it summarizes the most important aspects of the contractual relationship being professional farmers and workers based on real evidence. In addition, we have distributed more than 5,000 posters in the main agricultural centers around the country, with timetables of agricultural seasons to facilitate planning of the same.
Through the extensive network of offices, technicians of the Department of Industrial Relations COAG develop their work as mediators in hiring monitor compliance with the rights and obligations of each contracting party. Within these actions the management of migratory flows in agriculture are included, (enabling the development of actions aimed at providing social and professional integration), management of geographical mobility, the creation of an employment and recruiting workers / ace.
“For forming, informing and sensitizing agricultural professionals about the need for good social and labor relations has been the basic objective of multiple campaigns we have done in recent years. We intend to advance mutual respect and integration of all persons moving our people to enrich, from diversity, our rural areas, “stressed Miguel White, general secretary of COAG.
The agricultural sector employs directly 700,000 people each year in Spain. A large part of the occupied are in Andalusia (30%), Galicia (9%), Murcia (9%), Castilla y Leon (9%), Valencia (7%), Castilla-La Mancha (7%) and Catalonia (6%).
Download campaign materials: Guide, video, information signs and agricultural seasons calendar.
Source: COAG
