How the reduction of day affects me if I work less than 37.5 hours

Despite the opposition of the employer and the uncertain support of the Congress, yesterday the Council of Ministers approved the draft Law for the reduction of the working day at 37.5 hours a week, step prior to its parliamentary processing. If the deadlines provided by the Executive are fulfilled, the standard would have to go into force before January 31, so that companies would have the next 12 months to adapt.

In relation to this, the adaptation of companies, a very important aspect will be part -time contracts and reduced day, since the norm – if we go ahead as is drafted in the draft law – also implies changes in these cases .

As read in the text, part -time contracts with a job provision of duration equal to or greater than 37.5 hours per week “HE They will automatically convert full -time work contracts «; that is, with maintenance of the same salary. So far, nothing that was not known, because the CUIT of this legislative change is that salaries remain despite the hourly reduction.

However, workers with a reduced day or part -time contracts who work less than 37.5 hours a week will be entitled to continue carrying out the same number of hours that would come before the entry into force of the standard and al proportional increase in your salary, as read in the last draft of the text. That is, in those cases the entrepreneurs will be forced to reduce the hours of their employees or to compensate them with an equivalent salary climb.

In the case of workers who are making a reduced day for entrusted to the care of minors or relatives Or because they are victims of gender violence or terrorism, they will also have the right to continue carrying out the same number of work hours that would come previously. In these cases, in addition, they may adapt the reduced day they had been carrying out before the application of the reform to the new legal day planned, within the framework of the schedule they previously enjoyed.

Regarding Special Work Dayswhich are those that due to their characteristics differ from a normal day -for example, in especially dangerous jobs -for the moment the Ministry of Labor has not yet defined whether there will be changes or not. The draft entrusts the review of these regulations to the creation of a social dialogue table, with a period of 18 months to achieve a decision.