Yolanda Díaz promises “kicking Spain” to implement the 37.5 hours a week

The Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, has assured that “Spain” is going to kick “and that it is not going to” raise from any table “until the reduction of the working day at 37.5 hours per week” see the light “in the Congress of Deputies.

“We are going to mobilize, open debates in the academy, write articles and we are going to kick Spain to explain that this measure is key To improve the lives of people, economy and productivity and for 12.5 million people to have identical rights, “said the second vice president of the Government in an act called to add this Saturday.

Díaz recalled that the Government has already complied with this measure in the Council of Ministers and that Now the voice has the matches in Congress of the deputies.

For Díaz, the working day “has many adversaries for economic reasons” and, in this context, he said: “We are not going to get up from any table until” this measure “see the light in the Congress of the Deputies.” “There is no back.”

He recalled that the working day in Spain is 38.2 hours a week currently; that in communities such as Euskadi, Navarra or Catalonia, the ratio is around 37.5 and that already There are public employees who have it.

What is now intended is that those who work in commerce, agriculture or hospitality have the same rights than all workers.

“We are going to leave the skin” for those 12.5 million employees who have not been able to reduce their day. He wants to reduce the working day but maintaining the salary.

For the moment, The government is not guaranteed support Of all its investiture partners so that this measure see the light in Congress.

In fact, Junts has already announced that he will present an amendment At all, while the PP has not yet revealed whether or not it will present it.

The Econic Vice -Secretary of the PP, Juan Bravo, said this Saturday that to support this measure, a agreement between employer and unions. As for the employer, the president of the CEOE, Antonio Garamendi, has expressed his rejection.

In this act organized by adding, attendees have presented a hundred questions about this matter, which They have not read. In addition to Díaz, Joaquín Pérez, the Secretary State of Labor has intervened at the event.