The spokesperson for the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), Aitor Esteban, confirms that his training is in favor of reducing the working day to 37.5 hours per week, because “in Euskadi this has been in force for a long time and to a large extent.”
A few hours after the meeting with the general secretaries of the UGT and the CCOOUnai Sordo and Pepe Álvarez, PNV spokesperson in Congress, recognized the position of Basque education regarding the reduction of working hours without reduction of wages. Despite this, he warned that its application “is not so simple” in small businesses, so “the best” would be to reach an agreement between the government, unions and employers.
The PNV leader stressed that the working day in the Basque Country “has been in force for a long time, totally in the Public Administration and in the majority of large companies, if not all”.
For Stéphane, The main problem is to adapt this reduction in working hours to small businesses and to small businesses, because “it’s not easy, because if they have to add an extra person or make other adjustments, maybe the business is not viable, so we should help them and the best “The only thing for this is to reach an agreement”, referring to the differences that exist between employers, unions and the Ministry of Labor.
Although he knows the difficulties that small businesses could encounter, the PNV is clear: “We are in favor of the idea in general, because here we already have it in force, starting with the Administration, but Perhaps in other sectors it is not so simple and it deserves to be well studied.that’s what we’re asking for,” Esteban explained.
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Likewise, the leader of the PNV indicated that We should see “what the Government presents”, “if it presents anything”since, as he said, “the ministry, Sumar and Yolanda Díaz are here with objectives that they can present with the unions, but we must insert the PSOE into it, and then the government will present it and study for us how it consists,” warned Esteban.
In any case, he insisted that when applying the reduction in working hours, “another thing” is that it is necessary to take into consideration “what is not administration”, since, in the public sector and in large companies, “it is easy to compensate for the reduced hours of some workers, but not for others, and this is what we must adapt to, perhaps be with help or by concluding special agreements for these cases, we will then have to analyze it carefully,” he concluded before the meeting. UGT and CCOO.
The meeting with the unions was going to take place as Yolanda Díaz, Minister of Labor, called on social agents to confirm whether or not they supported the latest proposal, even if Cepyme and Ceoe had already put forward their response, confirming the refusal of the agreement. Ultimately, the meeting will not take place since the Ministry of Labor decided to cancel it and focus its attention on the recovery after Dana.
