Equality plans

Review and regulatory changes

Abstract

The RD–L 6/2019 has introducted a deep modification in the subject of equality plans. In this article a critical comment is made on that reform. The main legal inadequacies that impair the actual effectiveness of those bargained rules are highlighted. Particularly, the dubious adequacy of plans in the structure of collective agreements, the difficulties for their binding effects and the problems related to the parts that bargain them are revealed. Moreover the main legal modifications are commmented, mainly those related to the threshold of workers from which it is necessary to bargain equality plans and the requirements of the previous diagnosis for their ellaboration. Finally the article develops a comment on the practical experience of twelve years of validity of the LO 3/2007 and concludes with a very nuanced assessment of the 2019 reform