The Ministry of Labor assures that the site’s failure to assess the professional risks of domestic workers is due to a “malicious attack”. This is what Yolanda Díaz’s department indicated in a statement sent to the media: “Important information about the prevencion10.es application for the assessment of the prevention of occupational risks of domestic workers: The application is experiencing a service interruption which was initially identified as an overload due to the high flow of users and which, in the end, we confirmed that it is a malicious attack. We are working to restore it as soon as possible. Thank you for your understanding.”
According to ministerial sources, a series of robot The “automated” have “artificially” overloaded the platform, sending a large number of requests. The same sources do not quantify this volume of requests or where they may come from. Nor has a complaint been filed with the police authorities at this time.
Likewise, the Ministry has not communicated an extension of the evaluation requirements, despite the sentences issued byprevencion10.es in the last few hours. It should be noted that the page has been operational for six months. In situations of this type, the Inspection is usually flexible and it is normal not to impose sanctions in the first few days of an obligation, but this does not mean that the inspection body has the authority to act if a domestic worker turns up this Friday.
This Friday, November 14th, six months have passed since Trabajo launched the site prevencion10.es. This is the “free and open access prevention tool” which, as the Ministry explained in its launch, “allows employers to comply with their new legal obligations”. That is, on this site people who hire domestic workers can complete the self-assessment of occupational risks in their homes. After an entire semester has passed since the launch of the site, the provisions in terms of prevention will be requested from domestic employers.
Failure to carry out the self-assessment or failure to inform domestic workers about the preventive measures adopted can be classified as a serious infringement. The highest penalty foreseen by the legislation in this regard is 49,180 euros at its maximum level. Yolanda Díaz’s department emphasizes that this type of sanctions will only be applied in the presence of aggravating circumstances. Without them, in most cases, non-compliance would be considered minor and the fine would be a maximum of 2,450 euros.
On the other hand, the new regulations for domestic work regarding professional risks arrive with some delay. In March, eight months ago, the limit that Yolanda Díaz’s department had set itself to develop a training platform on risk prevention for domestic workers expired. Furthermore, it does not meet the deadline set for the development of an action protocol against situations of harassment and violence suffered by these professionals and for completing a technical guide for risk prevention. Both documents should have been available in September and there is no trace of them.
