The Council of Ministers approved on Tuesday the new strategy of the for the period 2025-2027. The main novelties include the incorporation throughout these three years of 554 inspectors and sub -inspectors to the workforce of labor supervisors, as well as an investment of 28.5 million euros for the objective involves increasing the body by 25%, from the nearly 2,000 troops it currently has.
With this budget, work aims to create a forensic computer laboratory for the obtaining of digital evidence. These evidence will be obtained through the application of forensic computer techniques that allow, in turn, to examine the computer systems themselves. In addition, new algorithmic rules will be created for fraud control and informative actions will be enhanced to companies derived from the massive data crossing.
As the law provides, these action plans are trianual. After that time a new strategy should be reviewed and designed. The one approved on Tuesday until 2027 contains 17 objectives grouped in two axes. The first determines the areas of action: individual and collective labor relations; Safety and health at work; equality and non -discrimination; The promotion and protection of employment, while the second axis establishes the organizational and operational measures of action of the inspectors.
One of the sources of information used by inspectors is increasing is the Mailbox of Complaints of the Website of the Labor Inspection. According to the figures provided on Tuesday, the communications that said mailbox has increased by 43% between 2021 and 2024.
In 2023, the last full year with available data, the inspection ended 651,531 files, 5% more than those set as a goal for the whole year. The largest number of actions was carried out in the field of occupational risk prevention, with a total of 242,869. It is followed by social security actions, around 140,000 and in the case of irregular economy and work of foreigners with about 135,000 actions.
More than one million working people, specifically 1,030,949, have seen their working conditions improved by the vigilant and sanctioning actions of the inspection. In addition, another 100,982 workers have been discharged in Social Security. And in 2023, 936,327,297 euros were collected for different means of action (through fines to the offending companies and contribution improvements fundamentally).
