HE Ministry of Labor Negotiations with employers and unions started this Thursday to reduce the maximum working day in Spain to 1000. 38.5 hours per weekfrom the current 40. Minister of State for Labor, Joaquin Perez ReyWith preliminary conclusions yet to be drawn and a potential agreement a long way off, it made initial contact with social actors to exchange views and little else.
Beyond creating a multilateral conversation methodology. On the one hand, the Labor Party will sit down from time to time to negotiate with employers and unions, and on the other hand, social actors will meet bilaterally to hold these negotiations sector by sector in parallel. “Our goal is for the recording of working hours to be an effective tool” and “to reduce the working day to 37.5 hours per week in 2025,” Pérez Rey summarized.
Businessmen came to the meeting upset but open to dialogue, because they think this is a flawed picture of dialogue from the start, since Labor has already made it clear that the working day will be shortened this year, deal or no deal. Margin is more about the how, and it is on these details that the negotiation that begins now will focus. However, Pérez Rey congratulated himself on this situation. CEOE Come to negotiate. After the meeting, which lasted about 3 hours, he said, “They gave approval to start working.”
Maximum working day specified in the regulation workers’ situation It has not been changed in 40 years, and although it reduces working hours in collective bargaining agreements, the scope of the measure will be significant. According to data collected monthly by the Ministry of Labor, more than half of employees, especially 55%is covered by a collective agreement with a weekly working day exceeding 38.5 hours per week. It will force employers and unions to review large parts of collective agreements to comply with this new reference intended by the second vice president. Yolanda Diaz. And it was stated that the coalition government has committed to reduce this time to 37.5 hours again in 2025.
Labor diagnosed sector-level negotiations between employers and unions on working time as having been stagnant for fifteen years. “Austerity policies have been radically ended,” the Minister of Foreign Affairs said. Given this limited progress on reducing working hours agreed in collective agreements, the Government now plans to ‘pull the wagon’. Although it leaves some of the analysis of how to reduce the working day in each sector to employers and represented unions.