The measure will benefit around 12 million employees in the Spanish state and companies will have until December 31, 2025 to adapt to the maximum day of 37.5 hours.
The Council of Ministers will approve the draft law on Tuesday to reduce working hours to 37.5 hours a week, without loss of salary.
The design is the result of agreement That signed the Ministry of Labor last December by Yolanda Díaz and CCOO and UGT and whose business organizations of CEO and Cepyme wanted to stay outside, understanding that the working day is a subject that should be established through collective negotiations.
The Ministry of Labor estimates that this measure will benefit About 12 million employees in the state Spanish. According to data from the Basque Labor Council, the reduction of the working day will influence some 250,000 employees private sector In Euskadi.
After the approval of the Council of Ministers, the text receives the mandatory reports from the State Council and CES before he returns to the Council of Ministers as a bill, which estimates the work that it will take place at the end of February. Subsequently, it will enter all the congress of representatives, where parliamentary groups can introduce changes before their final approval.
The working purpose is that the standard is published In the official state of Gazette (BOE) before the summer To have companies have a few months of adjustment, because, as agreed, the collective agreements that have more than 37.5 hours per week will have the annual average Until December 31, 2025 to adapt on the maximum day of 37.5 hours.
The Minister of Economy, Commerce and Company, Carlos Body, was demonstrated on Monday that an agreement will be reached with the parliamentary groups to execute the standard and also that there will be an agreement with regard to the package of assistance to companies, with Name SME, so that they can “absorb” the reduction in working day without general negative effects.
Fines of a maximum of 10,000 euros and “inalienable” right to disconnect
The Spanish government will pay up to 10,000 euros per employee to companies that do not meet the time registration and the reduction of the maximum weekly day of 37.5 hours.
The standard also reinforces the right to digital decoupling of employees outside their working day, as an “inalienable” right of the employee, on which there are no negative consequences or reprisals for not attending the communication of the company on the margin of your work schedule .
Source: EITB
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