The workplace as a regulatory reference in Spain

Abstract

The human being is located and acts in all areas of life on two basic coordinates: time and space. In the same way that Einstein pulverized the notion of time from a scientific point of view, first the organizational transformations of companies and then the impact derived from digitization as a technological change of the first magnitude have come to pulverize the notion of space as a security reference law for the application of labour standards. This study analyses how the two basic referents of space in labour relations (position work and workplace) progressively lose value for the purpose of setting working conditions and the exercise of union action rights. To the same extent, this study analyses how, for the survival of these two basic references, it is necessary to carry out a process of adaptation to the new business and technological context.