This Friday, the Government will begin the formal process to approve the draft law that includes the reduction of the working day to 37.5 hours in 2025, after announcing the Ministry of Labor that it closes the social dialogue table with the unions and with the employer.
As planned, this forum has concluded without a tripartite agreement, after the employers rejected the latest proposal from the department led by Yolanda Díaz.
After 11 months of negotiationexplained the Secretary of State, Joaquín Pérez Rey, the CEOE and Cepyme have openly defended that the reduction of working hours cannot be done by law, but must be agreed upon in collective bargaining between representatives of employers and representatives of workers.
this friday The Executive will put the preliminary draft out for public consultation of law, the first step to process the norm within the Government, first, and in the Congress of Deputies later. Pérez Rey has explained that the procedure in the Government will be done “through emergency“.
Furthermore, the Secretary of State for Employment has recalled that the department led by Díaz has been in contact for some time with the different parliamentary groups to build the necessary majority with the aim of approving the project.
A technical negotiation opens
After closing the dialogue table, a process of technical negotiation between Labor and the unions to close the last fringes of the norm. Pérez Rey has openly spoken of an “imminent agreement” and has pointed to the “next few days”, although the unions have preferred to convey that what exists is “a shared vision” between both negotiators.
The rule will consist of the three fundamental elements on which the negotiation has pivoted in recent months: the reduction of the working day, without salary reduction, to 37.5 hours in 2025; the launch of a digital and interoperable time register directly by the Labor Inspection; and the regulation of the so-called right to digital disconnection.
The support plan for companies proposed by Labor, in the air
Among the issues that remain to be closed between Labor, CCOO and UGT in the technical negotiation, one of those that will focus the most attention is the one related to the harshness of sanctions against companies who repeatedly fail to comply with the workers’ time records.
It is still up in the air that the support plan for companies that those of Díaz offered to the employers, with direct aid and bonuses for new hires. The unions have already warned that their intention is not to defend this plan, and Labor has defended that “there are aspects of the proposal that only made sense if the employers were within the agreement.”
However, parliamentary groups such as PNVwhose votes will surely be necessary to move the law forward in Congress, have positively valued the existence of this support plan with aid to so-called microenterprises (corporations with less than five employees on staff).
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