He Executive Committee extraordinary of CEOE this Tuesday “unanimously” rejected the proposal of the Ministry of Labor of legal reduction of working hours at 37.5 hours per week from 2025.
“CEOE and Cepyme, from their responsibility, cannot support this proposal. Modify by law issues that are its own matter of collective agreements, such as the reduction of working hours, and that, in fact, they are already being agreed bilaterally in the agreements, represents an interference in the autonomy of collective bargainingenshrined in article 37.1 of the Constitution,” they argue in a joint statement.
Business organizations warn that, if the reduction of working hours is approved by law, the collective bargaining framework would be weakened. They insist that “it has been fundamental to maintaining social peace over the last 40 years” and, in practice, “would attract many companiesespecially to SMEs and the self-employed, to a forced reorganization that will put their capacity for internal organization and survival to the limit”.
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