Congress postpones legal reform on Catalan in companies
Congress decided to postpone for two weeks the controversial legislative reform that the Junts party wrested from the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party). This will require large companies and service providers to provide customer service in co-official languages . This obligation arose despite the outright opposition of the CEOE (Spanish Workers' Party), which calls it "barbaric" and an obstacle to "freedom of enterprise."
The measure will be included in the Customer Service Law , which was being processed by the committee drafting the new regulations and is part of the Social Rights and Consumer Affairs Committee in Congress.
Junts urged the PSOE to state that the new obligation would be included in this new law during the amendment phase. Yesterday, the committee held a closed-door meeting in which it began analyzing all the amendments submitted by the groups.
In total, there are more than 200 amendments still pending, and yesterday there wasn't enough time to discuss all of them. Thus, those relating to co-official languages in companies will not be addressed until a new meeting, which will take place during the week of October 8.
While waiting to see what the text that emerges from the report says, Junts and the PSOE continued to issue contradictory messages about its scope. The neo-convergents insisted, both actively and passively, that all companies with a turnover of more than €50 million, employing more than 250 workers, and providing services such as electricity or audiovisual platforms, regardless of the region in which they are based, must comply with the new obligation.
On the other hand, the PSOE spokesperson on the Social Rights Committee, Noelia Cobo , stated that the requirement will only apply to regions where co-official languages are recognized in their respective Statutes of Autonomy and "not to all of Spain." She asserted that her party "will continue along these lines" and will not go any further. The Ministry of Social Rights, Consumption, and the 2030 Agenda, headed by Pablo Bustinduy (Sumar), has similar views.
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