Yolanda Díaz, second vice president and Minister of Labor, confirms this Thursday that she will “immediately” convene the social dialogue table to reduce the working day to 37.5 hours per week.
It should be noted that The last meeting, scheduled for November 11, was suspended focus on the management of DANA, confirmed the Secretary of State for Employment, Joaquín Pérez Rey.
Thus, this Thursday, the Minister of Labor announced the new call: “We will immediately convene this table and I already tell you that now the debate on the working day is taking its cruising speed and, without a doubt, the working day in our country will be reduced”, emphasized Díaz, the doors of the first session of the International Labor Congress this Thursday.
In his intervention to the media, Díaz said that the reduction of the working day by half an hour per day, until reaching 37.5 hours per week, will allow workers to “live a little better” and improve productivity.
The minister recalled that this reform is accompanied by the strengthening of the right to digital disconnection and time control so that the Labor Inspectorate can know in real time the hours actually worked: “This is the measure that the Spanish expect the most and it is true that we have an average hours in our country of 38.2, but that is not the case. We want there to be second-class workers in Spain. We already have three million civil servants who have a 37 and a half hour day, but we also want women who work in commerce to have the right to reduce their hours, as well as people who work. in agriculture, in the hospitality industry or those who work in the media are entitled to a reduced working day,” defended Díaz.
The minister assured that the Spanish government Not only does it work centrally to reduce working hours in Spain, but it also does so within the European Union.: “One of the main debates is the disconnection rule in Europe. Spain is going to have a strong position here,” said the vice-president.
Tax reform
On another note, in reference to a possible agreement with other parliamentary groups on tax reform, Díaz highlighted that the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, is working on this negotiation to reach an agreement, but she remained cautious: “Let them work on this negotiation until the afternoon,” declared the leader of the Labor Party.
Díaz stressed that this tax reform will not only make it possible to respect commitments in Europe, but also obtain more public revenue from those who have the most.
