The The impact of the reform in the construction sector. A merely aesthetic change for statistical purposes

Abstract

Royal Decree Law 32/2021 repeals, with effect from 30-3-2022, the contract for a specific work or service. And this legislative decision has a clear impact on the construction sector, in which the contract by work is the most used contractual modality. The data corroborates this: according to the SEPE statistics corresponding to 2021, of 100% of the contracts that were signed throughout the year, about 75% had this specific modality. But the possibility of resorting to this type of contract disappears due to the reform. On the other hand, the legislator provides for a particular regime of contractual termination applicable to those permanent workers who are assigned to work. The purpose of this article focuses precisely on analyzing the legal regime of this indefinite contract assigned to work. But, to understand the scope of the reform and its concrete impact on the construction sector, it is necessary to understand the starting point. And hence, previously, we stop at the study of the fixed work contract, its origins and its conventional regulation.