Héctor Illueca

Héctor Illueca Ballester (born 8 August 1975) is a Spanish labour inspector and politician who currently serves as Director of the Labour and Social Security Inspectorate.

Héctor Illueca
Director-General of the Labour and Social Security Inspectorate
Incumbent
Assumed office 3 February 2020
Preceded by	María Soledad Serrano Ponz
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office 21 May 2019 – 21 January 2020
Constituency	Valencia
Personal details
Born	8 August 1975 Valencia, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Occupation	Labour inspector, politician

Previously, he served as member of the 13th and 14th Congress of Deputies within the Confederal Unidas Podemos-En Comú Podem-Galicia en Común Parliamentary Group.

Biography

Born on 8 August 1975 in Valencia, he earned a PhD in Law at the University of Valencia (UV).[1][2] Illueca —a labour inspector and professor at the UV— was a member of the Frente Cívico «Somos Mayoría», founded by Julio Anguita.[3][4]

In 2018, he co-authored along Manolo Monereo and Julio Anguita a series of provocative pieces directing criticism towards the European Union while defending several measures taken by the Italian government of coalition between the Northern League and Five Star Movement that subsequently set a fierce intellectual controversy within the Spanish left-wing public sphere.[5][6]

He ran as candidate to the Congress of Deputies vis-à-vis the 2019 general election, 1st in the Unidas Podemos list in the constituency of Valencia; he was elected and became a member of the 13th Congress of Deputies, joining the Confederal Unidas Podemos-En Comú Podem-Galicia en Común Parliamentary Group.[1] On 30 July 2019 he was elected to chair the Committee on Labour, Migrations and Social Security of the Congress of Deputies.[7]

On January 21, 2020, the labour minister Yolanda Díaz appointed him as Director-General of the Labour and Social Security Inspectorate, withdrawing from his position as member of parliament.[8] He was sworn in on 3 February 2020.[9]

Works

Coauthored books

• Illueca Ballester, Héctor; Guamán Hernández, Adoración (2012). El huracán neoliberal. Una reforma liberal contra el trabajo. Sequitur.[10] 
• Monereo, Manolo; Illueca, Héctor (2015). Por un nuevo proyecto de país. El Viejo Topo.[11] 
• Monereo, Manolo; Illueca, Héctor (2017). España: un proyecto de liberación. El Viejo Topo.[11] 

References

1. "XIII Legislatura (2019-Actualidad). Illueca Ballester, Héctor". Congreso de los Diputados.
2. San Juan, Hèctor; Torre, Noa de la (26 April 2019). "Héctor Illueca (Podemos): "Me gustaría mucho conversar con el Papa. Siento un gran respeto"". El Mundo. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
3. Díaz, Sato (21 April 2019). "Héctor Illueca: "Hay un Estado profundo que subvierte la radicación social del poder"". Cuarto Poder. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
4. Romero, Víctor (2 May 2017). "La apuesta 'anguitista' de Iglesias balcaniza Podemos Valencia y pone en guardia a Puig". El Confidencial. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
5. Gil, Iván (28 September 2018). "¿Provocadores, incorrectos o "rojipardos"?: el discurso de Anguita y Monereo sobre Italia y la UE que agita a la izquierda". eldiario.es. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
6. Hernández, Esteban (7 September 2018). "La izquierda: opción B". El Confidencial. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
7. "El PP presidirá la Comisión de Hacienda del Congreso, Ciudadanos la de Economía, y Podemos, Presupuestos y Trabajo". Europa Press. 30 July 2019.
8. "La ministra de Trabajo nombra a Héctor Illueca director general de Inspección de Trabajo". abc (in Spanish). 2020-01-21. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
9. "Yolanda Díaz no se dejará guiar sólo por "macroíndices económicos"". Madridiario.
10. Llopis, Enric (7 May 2012). "Adoración Guamán y Héctor Illueca:"La reforma laboral nos devuelve a relaciones de servidumbre y vasallaje"". Crónica Popular. ISSN 2386-9879. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
11. Alós, Carlos (4 December 2018). "César Jiménez, Héctor Illueca y Ángela Ballester, aspirantes a diputados de Podemos". Levante-EMV. Retrieved 30 May 2019.