Labor meets social workers to discuss reducing working hours

The Spanish Government’s Ministry of Labor and Social Economy will meet with CC this Monday. OO., UGT, CEOE and Cepyme debate the draft of the preliminary draft law on the reduction of the maximum legal working daywithout salary reduction, a maximum of 38.5 hours per week in 2024 and a maximum of 37.5 hours in 2025.

The meeting will take place at 12 noon at the Ministry and will take place after the social agents received last Friday the text drawn up by the department headed by Yolanda Díaz on one of the most important measures of the legislature: the shortening of the working day , an initiative. This will be accompanied by a reform of time recording to ensure that companies adhere to legal restrictions on working time.

According to the draft, the violation of the rules and legal or agreed limits regarding working hours, night work, overtime, additional hours, breaks, holidays, permits, recording of working hours and, in general, working time is punished. their minimum level, with fines ranging from 1000 to 2000 euros; at the average level, from 2001 to 5,000 euros, and at the maximum level, from 5,001 to 10,000 euros.

The main goal of the text is to reduce the weekly working day (on an annual basis) from 40 to 38.5 hours in 2024 and to 37.5 hours on January 1, 2025.

But it also introduces changes in the working day record which has been implemented in companies to ensure that it is truly effective. This new register will be digital and automatically accessible to every employee, trade union representative and the Labor and Social Security Inspectorate.

The working draft refers to a regulation that: plans to approve within six monthsfor the development of the legal content of the register, and notes that the specification of its operation will be determined by collective labor agreement or company agreement or, failing that, by decision of the employer after information and consultation with the trade union representatives.