Union leaders were also due to meet with the Spanish Ministry of Labor, but this has been suspended due to DANA.
The general secretary of CCOO, Unai Sordoand the leader of UGT, Pepe Alvarezwill meet PNV and EH Bildu this Monday to convey their proposals for the legal shortening of the working day.
The general secretary of UGT-Euskadi, Raúl Arza, and the general secretary of CCOO-Euskadi, Loli García, will also participate in the meetings.
In the morning the meeting will take place in Sabin Etxea, where they will meet with the chairman of the EBB of the PNV, Andoni Ortuzarthe burukide Joseba Aurrekoetxea and the spokesperson in Congress of the Basque Group Aitor Esteban.
In the afternoon they meet at the EH Bildu headquarters in Donostia with the general coordinator of EH Bildu, Arnaldo Otegias well as the parliamentarian Nerea Kortajaarna and the political leader of the formation in Navarra Miren Zabaleta.
In this way, these unions begin the round of meetings they have planned to gather support from parliamentary groups. However, Unai Sordo has announced through the microphones of Radio Euskadi that the Spanish Ministry of Labor has suspended the planned meeting on the reduction of working hours due to the situation left by DANA in the Valencian Community.
Unai Sordo hopes that the PNV and EH Bildu will support the legal shortening of the working day, because the Basques would not understand if they rejected it. The position of these two Basque groups will also be examined regarding a “much more restrictive” time control that prevents “fraud”.
The union leader has indicated that the PNV’s position on this issue will have to be determined by them, but he does not believe “that it is very reasonable for a Basque party, where the effective average working day is already lower than what there is at that time .” state level, to refuse a measure that will have a relative impact in Euskadi and which, moreover, would not be understood by Basque citizens.
Likewise, he added that it appears in principle that EH Bildu “shares the idea” of shortening the working day, and thus does not “anticipate a priori that this could be opposed.” However, he assumes that they will want to propose their own approach on this point.
The aim is therefore not only to “shorten the legal working day, but also to have elements that make it possible to guarantee that working hours are met” in the Spanish state. “Often, beyond what the agreement or law says, the days last longer than planned, and this needs to be regulated and better controlled,” Sordo concluded.
Source: EITB
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