| Héctor Illueca | |
| Birth Date: | 8 August 1975 |
| Birth Place: | Valencia, Spain |
| Nationality: | Spanish |
| Office: | Second Vice President and Minister of Housing and Bioclimatic Architecture of the Generalitat Valenciana |
| President: | Ximo Puig |
| Term Start: | 10 September 2021 |
| Term End: | 19 July 2023 |
| Predecessor: | Rubén Martínez Dalmau |
| Successor: | Susana Camarero |
| Office1: | Director-General of the Labour and Social Security Inspectorate |
| Term Start1: | 3 February 2020 |
| Term End1: | 9 September 2021 |
| Predecessor1: | María Soledad Serrano Ponz |
| Successor1: | Carmen Collado Rosique |
| Office2: | Member of the Congress of Deputies |
| Term Start2: | 21 May 2019 |
| Term End2: | 21 January 2020 |
| Constituency2: | Valencia |
| Occupation: | Labour inspector, politician |
Héctor Illueca Ballester (born 8 August 1975) is a Spanish labour inspector and politician. He served as Director of the Labour and Social Security Inspectorate from February 2020 to September 2021.
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.
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, founded by Julio Anguita.[3] [4]
In 2018, he co-authored along 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. On 30 July 2019 he was elected to chair the Committee on Labour, Migrations and Social Security of the Congress of Deputies.[7]
On 21 January 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]