The Second Vice President of the Government and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, announced that in the coming days she would reach an agreement with the unions to reduce the working day to 37.5 hours per week and, in addition, she announced that on Tuesday she will meet with experts from the commission to raise the professional minimum wage (SMI).
“A new era is coming which is called nothing more and nothing less than reduction of the working day,” he said in statements to the media, reported by Europa Press, before attending the closing ceremony of the Constituent Assembly of Sumar Galicia in Santiago. . of Compostela.
As the vice-president explained, this “measure par excellence” and “of a transversal nature” will be the subject “directly of a parliamentary procedure”. “This serves to improve people’s lives, to gain mental health, which is also a measure that fights the climate emergency, which reduces the ecological footprint, which serves to prolong life and improve productivity,” he said previously. with this measure and the increase in the SMI, it completes “a powerful circle”.
Increase in the SMI
Likewise, Yolanda Díaz announced that she would convene the panel of experts next Tuesday to “increase the interprofessional minimum wage again.”
In this sense, she highlighted that in Galicia “136,000 workers improve their salary situation” who, according to the vice-president, “see how their situation is improving thanks to the increase in the SMI”.
