The extraordinary Executive Committee of CEOE has rejected this Tuesday “unanimously” the Ministry of Labor’s proposal to legally reduce the working day to 37.5 hours per week from 2025. The Ministry of Labor headed by Vice President Yolanda Díaz offered a series of bonuses to companies for stable full-time hiring and aid for digitize processes such as time control.
“CEOE and Cepyme, from their responsibility, cannot support this proposal. Modify by law issues that are the subject of collective agreements, such as the reduction of working hours, and that, in fact, are already being agreed bilaterally in the agreements , represents an interference in the autonomy of collective bargaining, enshrined 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, it would weaken the collective bargaining framework, “which has been fundamental to maintaining social peace over the last 40 years” and, in practice, “would lead to many companies, especially SMEs and the self-employed, to a forced reorganization that will put their capacity for internal organization and survival to the limit,” Europa Press reported.
The employers’ association has stressed that “productivity is hardly going to increase from the reduction of working hours in a productive fabric made up of around 98% by SMEs and the self-employed, and where the sectors with the greatest contribution to the GDP are linked, among others , to services or tourism”. “They criticize the minister for approaching the reform without taking into account the enormous differences between the different economic sectors and between autonomous communities.”
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