Idoia Mendia has announced that she will propose to the Social Dialogue Table to set up a working group to evaluate the introduction of four working days per week without a reduction in salary and without an increase in hours.
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The Second Deputy Hendakari and Minister of Labor and Employment of the Basque Government, Idoia Mendia, announced this Friday in the Basque Parliament that she will propose to the Table of Social Dialogue to create a working group for labor innovation, with a research with a practical test and final evaluation, including the introduction of the four-day work week without pay reduction and without increase in hours, workplace participation, “giving more paper to employees”, and “exploration” of teleworking and the mediation .
In the plenary session of the government’s scrutiny that holds the Basque chamber, the adviser answered a question from the PES parliamentarian Ekain Rico, about the call to all institutions and social and economic actors to “take risks in innovative policies” , an issue collected in the White Paper on Employment recently presented at the WORKinLan Summit.
As he explained, innovative programs make it possible to restore the talent of women, youth, the long-term unemployed or recipients of RGI. Idoia Mendia recalled that the next Labor law It also includes, for the first time, the subjective right to training and guidance for access to or improvement in employment, as a “guarantee of equality in new opportunities”.
In addition, it has announced that the next meeting of the Social Dialogue Table, to be approved in March annual work planwill create a move innovation group labor relationswhich complement the improvements made by the minimum wage increase and labor reform, from the powers of the Basque Country.
In this way, it will propose “to test the four-day work week without a reduction in wages and without an increase in hours, and to study its effects on productivity and reconciliation”.
It will also propose “testing employee participation in the workplace, at a time of profound technological transformation, where employees are becoming more involved”, and “exploring teleworking and reconciliation”.
“The flexibility it offers makes it very attractive, but we also need to analyze the risks to rights. We want companies and employees to benefit from this,” he said.
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Likewise, he has reported that they have already forwarded it to the social agents, as they want to “channel it through the social dialogue table”.
“We must move towards a new corporate and trade union culture that guarantees the success of companies, as well as quality employment. We have a vocation to continue to innovate and on this occasion, with these issues, we will be the first autonomous community to venture into this issues that I consider paramount in emerging victorious from the challenges ahead,” he said.
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