Álvarez reminds Feijóo that the regulation already permits the work day to be concentrated in 4 days | Economy | EUROtoday

The common secretary of UGT, Pepe Álvarez, met this Tuesday with the president of the Popular get together, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in a gathering through which each leaders mentioned the most recent developments in labor issues, and, singularly, concerning the Proposal for a Conciliation and Co-Responsibility Law registered by the Popular Party in Congress. Álvarez has valued the PP’s willingness to pay attention in a single norm the completely different legislative adjustments which were produced on this matter in current occasions, and has promised to offer him together with his opinions and observations quickly. “We are working so that we can propose specific amendments,” indicated the UGT chief, who, nevertheless, reminded the PP that present laws already permits the focus of the working day in 4 days, one of many foremost proposals outlined by this bench.

Álvarez, who was grateful to Feijóo for organizing the assembly – which came about a day after assembly Unai Sordo, chief of CC OO –, defended that the labor system “does not need more flexibility when applying the working day.” “, since it already contemplates “mechanisms to make working hours irregular” and “with few situations from a legislative standpoint.” At the same time, he celebrated that “the agreements of this nation are an instance in these sectors and firms which have the best want [de repartir el tiempo de trabajo]”.

Although at first the PP had been favorable to this concept – which didn’t alter the calculation of whole hours per week, however reasonably compressed them into 4 days -, the proposal has misplaced energy after its final assembly with Antonio Garamendi, president of the CEOE. In reality, Álvarez has confessed that the employers’ affiliation has by no means made any criticism to them about Spanish laws not providing that flexibility.

Despite not sharing this strategy, the union chief has celebrated the PP’s willingness to group the completely different rules concerning conciliation into one. “For us, having a single law in which all these regulations that currently exist can be displayed is a positive step, and if it also helps us move forward much better,” Álvarez indicated. “We are working on them, and it is possible that we can propose specific amendments, since this is a rule that must reflect what exists, and improve some issues or drawbacks that conciliation has for the men and women of our country,” he said.

However, Álvarez has clarified that what his union defends on the social dialogue desk that it maintains open with the Ministry of Labor and the employers’ associations has to do with a discount in working time, and never with its redistribution. “The debate is there. We are not talking about the working day going from 40 hours a week to 37 hours – the Government wants to reduce it to 37.5 in 2025 -, we are talking about that to the extent that the real working day is decreasing (the current average is 38 hours), that the legal one also do it,” he defended. In this manner, they’ve requested the PP to “accompany” them on this demand.

The second vp and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, as soon as once more demanded this Monday that employers be part of the settlement to cut back working hours. “I ask the employers to look at the young generations of our country and explain why it is not possible to reduce the working day by half an hour a day,” he claimed throughout the World in Progress discussion board in Barcelona.

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Aside from the discount in working hours, Álvarez commented that he has additionally requested Feijóo that his get together assist the most recent pension reform that unions and employers (CEOE and Cepyme) have agreed with the Ministry of Social Security, in reference to partial and energetic retirements. “I have asked the PP, and they have told us that there is a commitment that they are going to look at it, to take into consideration the latest agreement we have reached in the social dialogue that refers to the latest modifications to the replacement contract, so that it can be approved by the Cortes Generales before the end of the year,” he defined. “The replacement contract expires this year, and it would be regrettable if it were not in place on January 1 of next year. Political life cannot cause parliament to hijack the norms that are necessary for the economic and social development of our country,” he exclaimed.

Asked if within the speak with Feijóo there was additionally dialogue concerning the Ministry of Social Security’s proposal on the creation of versatile and voluntary sick go away, Álvarez acknowledged that sure, though “in passing.” Even so, he has as soon as once more made clear, and forcefully, his union’s rejection of this risk. “We are not going to negotiate with the Government any issue that has to do with flexible sick leave or partial incorporation into work. “Social Security administers everything that has to do with temporary disability (TI) – as sick leave is technically known – but in Social Security there are no experts who can tell us whether there are therapeutic reasons to do so,” he detailed. “We are only going to address this matter if there is any report from a therapeutic perspective that comes out of the Ministry of Health,” he careworn.