Be late It is a practice that usually looks bad, but normally does not attract consequences beyond a little elegant gesture. In fact, there are many people who have the habit of delaying when they go to a site. Well then, In the workplace it seems that this action will stop performing completelyunless you want your payroll to be reduced.
According to the Judgment STS 2264/2021, The Supreme Court guarantees that companies can discount the time not worked when the employee is late without justification. Yes, as they read it. From now on, you can lose money for being late. The matter has come so far from what happened with Attentive Teleservicios España SAa company that began to discount the time corresponding to unjustified delays from monthly payrolls.
The Supreme Court has supported article 26.1 of the Workers' Statute
After this case, The General Labor Confederation (CGT) filed a demand for collective conflictto which other unions such as UGT, CCOO, use, CIG, CSIF, STC and FASGA were added. A demand whose objective was demonstrate that it is “practice” was actually an undercover economic sanctionknown in Labor Law as a “fine of having”, something prohibited by the Statute of Workers.
However, The Supreme Court has given the company againmaking it clear that the fact that the time in which a worker is late without justification can not be considered an illegal sanction. In addition, the agency has supported the article 26.1 of the Workers Statute, which Talk about salary as remuneration for the services provided.
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On the other hand, the Supreme also remembered what the Article 30, which clarifies that the worker only has the right to collect if the impossibility of working is the fault of the companynot of the employee itself. In this way, it seems that arriving punctual to the sites will take much more into account that until now, at least in the workplace, since if the consequences can do so, they can have an impact on their pocket.
