The CEOE and Cepyme have officially confirmed this Tuesday that will not support the Ministry of Labor’s proposal to reduce the working day from 40 to 37.5 hours per week in 2025. Surprise to no one, really, despite the optimism he showed (or “tried to”)) the vice president Yolanda Diaz in negotiations with the employers a few weeks ago. The news has been known in the midst of an emergency due to the catastrophe in Valencia and Albacete and, precisely, when the situation of so many workers whose workday was not interrupted in the middle of a waterspout a week ago has been made public; or when cases are discovered such as that of the electrician residing in Alfafar whose boss threatens retaliation for arriving late to work after walking several hours to his job and reporting it. Without a car, without public transportation and in very complicated conditions due to the effects of the floods, Fabián Leal told The time of 1 (TVE) who had to go to work due to business imperative. Furthermore, it did so on the same day that the Government activated the ERTE to try to protect workers and companies from the effects of the most destructive storm of this century, at least.
Reporting labor abuses continues to be very complicated when the specter of dismissal is looming and, despite the fact that the CEOE appeals to a weakening of collective bargaining if the reduction of working hours is approved by law, the reality is stubborn: currently, 41% of workers do not charge or contribute for the overtime they doThat is, according to the Active Population Survey, four out of every ten workers who work overtime do not charge even one euro more for them. The problem is not that the day is long; The problem is that it is made as long as necessary for the employer in too many cases and without remuneration.which makes Spain one of the EU countries with the greatest job dissatisfaction, due to low salaries and work-life balance problems, to which is added the problem of access to a house with obscene prices.
The reduction of working hours is only one of the legs of the pending structural reform of the coalition government to improve the living conditions of workers: better salaries, paid overtime, basic and equal rights to reconcile work and personal life and other more innovative contributions, such as companies distribute their profits among workers and that this is guaranteed by law, in the image and likeness of France, which approved it in 2023. The neighboring country, by the way, has a 35-hour work day. The proposal for the distribution of benefits is still only a proposal of the PSOE to be carried out together with 229 others in its 41st Federal Congress, just as they anticipated Columbarium and Monrosi in ElDiario.esbut if the employers get hives from the reduction of working hours by law, I imagine what they might think about the distribution of their benefits, taking into account that a extra than a distribution. I hope I’m wrong.
It is difficult for the Government to obtain parliamentary approval of a reduction in working hours that will now have to be agreed with the unions, which are stronger than the employers, although in the opposite direction, and have already warned that there will be mobilizations if their conditions are not accepted. If you reach an agreement with CC.OO. and UGT, PSOE and Sumar have the support of their leftist investiture partners in Congress and predictably, they say, that of the PNV, although they would still need the votes of Junts or the PP. to move forward. The shadow of the employers, however, is as long as the 40 years we have had the current working day.
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