Social inclusion through public procurement. Reserved contracts reserved contracts of the 4 additional provision of public procurement act, with a note on their impact on collective bargaining

Abstract

A decade after its incorporation into law, and following its consolidation in the Public Contracts Act, the reservation of contracts as a formula for promoting the social integration of the most vulnerable groups in society, through the incorporation and maintenance of employment, finds its key element in additional provision 4 of the regulation. The problems in its implementation in practice, as shown by the statistics, run parallel to four important legal issues affecting the variant aimed at special employment centers of social initiative, and relating to its subjective definition, the setting of specific percentages, its application to lots, and, in particular, the determination of the collective agreement applicable in cases of subcontracting and succession of contracts that would affect a special employment center of social initiative.