“Absenteeism laborala da, gaur egun, enpresa horiek gurean bearatu behar duten lacras nagusi bat.” These are the words of the employer extracted from a guide for the management of absenteeism in companies. They have not said anything about the new right to work, which has been one of the main topics for discussion in recent days. It's very significant.

Perhaps they need time to look at the issue. Or it may be that this law is not necessary to hinder everyone, because they know that it is in their hands to make formal recognition a real right in the world of work. That is their capacity under labour law and the unconditional political protection of governments. They had the opportunity to change this possibility, but they did not do so in reform.

The sexual division of labor, the denial of the working condition to the care performed at home, the non-recognition of real value to those who are performed in the market, the impossibility of analyzing the right to occupational health in function of feminized professions and women… are structural rules. Real unwritten rules, because capital is not prepared to bear the cost of economic and labour rights that the modification of all this would entail for women.

The minister of the Government of Spain, Irene Montero, stated that “the work is finished dragging on the pain of menstruation”. I find it difficult to think that the caregiver who goes to work with back pain, or the cleaner who goes to work loaded with pills to relieve the pains that the wristband produces for his profession, may believe that it will be.