this ministry of industry launched procedures so that around 150 companies can test the 4-day workweek (or 32 hours per week) between your templates. The department, led by Reyes Maroto, presented the project, for which it had allocated its budget, to the public. 10 million €. The deadline for submission of claims will be open until: 30 June. This item was one of Íñigo Errejón’s requests to the PSOE to support the final General Government Budgets, and the program is expected to begin later this year. The aim is to test whether reducing working hours while maintaining the same salaries is affordable by companies and reduces their productivity or job margins.
Details on how this pilot program will be implemented have not yet been defined. According to sources familiar with the negotiations between Industry and More Country, the startup universe would be around 150 companies. Their size has not yet been determined.however, the project presented this Tuesday states that the buyers will be small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) in the industrial sector.
The idea on the table in Industry’s last meetings with More Country was to ask for help from Turkey. Between 2,000 and 3,000 Euros per employee to companies that fit the program in question. The aim is to finance some of the early-stage impact that reductions in working hours, not wages, can have on these companies’ billing. And encourage investing that money to improve processes and compensate for less work by being more efficient. One factor yet to be identified is whether there will be a minimum percentage of the workforce that must take advantage of the hourly discount.
rise controversy
Discussions about the 4-day work week are emerging in the labor scene in Europe and Spain. Inside United Kingdom At the beginning of June, the Government launched a program involving 70 companies.Together, the company, which has more than 30,000 employees, will test whether it’s possible to work less to live better. In Belgium they reinterpreted the concept and approved the possibility of squeezing the workday into four days. So companies may decide to work one day less, but work more hours the rest of the day.
as companies in Spain not equal They included the 4-day workweek, though not literally, as they cut some of their employees’ salaries. And like companies Telephone They made it possible for their employees to switch to a part-time job by working one day less and cutting the comparable portion of their payroll (with a small bonus). And at the regional level, the Valencian Generalitat has created its own pilot program to provide assistance to companies that bet on 32-hour shifts per week. If the cut in working hours is extended by three years, a total of 9,611 euros per employee.