This measure, legally known as “recoverable paid leave”, which is currently no longer legally valid, provided for the possibility of recovering these hours not worked due to force majeure, for a maximum of one hour per day, during the following working days, after notification to the workers’ legal representatives and the Labour Inspectorate.
But since this figure no longer exists, and what has actually happened is that there is a “bag of hours”, which have been charged normally, with the exception of transport allowances or per diems, and which therefore must be recovered until the end of this year, which are being a source of conflicts between companies and their staff.
On the other hand, there are a series of regulations that limit the number of maximum hours that can be worked per day and per week, therefore there should be some “period of consultations between companies and workers’ legal representatives” to see when all these hours could be performed. Once both parties have reached an agreement, workers will be able to begin recovering them under the agreed conditions.