CEOE replies to Díaz: an efficient day of 41.2 hours could be wanted to realize the productiveness of the EU | Economy | EUROtoday

The CEOE employers’ affiliation denies that the discount of the weekly working day to 37.5 hours will improve productiveness, as defended by the Ministry of Labor, and factors out that, for Spain to have a productiveness much like the European common, its efficient working day It needs to be round 41.2 hours per week.

In the paperwork that CEOE has despatched to Labor with its concerns on the draft of the draft legislation on lowering working hours, the employers’ affiliation emphasizes that the Ministry’s premise that lowering working hours will increase productiveness “is not supported empirically.”

The Ministry of Labor headed by Yolanda Díaz reached an settlement with the unions to cut back the working day to 37.5 hours, however not with the employers. This measure is agreed upon within the Government settlement between PSOE and Sumar, though in current days there have been clashes between Díaz and Carlos Corp’s Ministry of Economy, whom he accuses of not wanting to hold out this proposal that the minister needs to be in pressure already this 12 months.

“Studies indicate that it is the increase in productivity that allows the reduction of working hours and the increase in salaries. In sectors where productivity is directly related to working time, an imposed reduction will generate organizational imbalances and a greater increase in labor costs, resulting in a decrease in productivity,” warns the employer.

The enterprise group chaired by Antonio Garamendi alleges that, since 2019, productiveness per worker has decreased considerably in Spain in comparison with its progress within the EU as an entire, to which we should add that Spain presents low ranges of productiveness compared. with its European companions. According to the CEOE, in comparative phrases, these European international locations which have an efficient working day in a variety much like that of Spain present considerably increased productiveness.

“To have a level of productivity in line with the average of the countries analyzed, the effective working day in Spain should be around 41.2 hours per week. Therefore, carrying out reductions in these working hours without very significant increases in productivity would distance us even further from European references,” he warns.

In the paperwork despatched by the employers to Labor, the CEOE additionally states that the draft accommodates “gratuitous and unrigorous” statements and that it confuses the utmost working day with the agreed working day. Thus, the employers’ affiliation factors out that the legislator can restrict the utmost period of the authorized working day, as an “insurmountable limit” to be taken under consideration in collective bargaining or in particular person contracts, “but never as an element of conventionally fixing the working day.” agreed work”.

Díaz signed this settlement on the finish of December with the union leaders of CC OO, Unai Sordo, and UGT, Pepe Álvarez. After 11 months of tripartite negotiations in social dialogue, solely the unions and Labor have agreed on an articulated authorized textual content to switch the Workers’ Statute. The employers’ affiliation has frontally and unanimously rejected till the final minute being a part of this pact, which contemplates its utility in 2025.

The textual content nonetheless has to undergo the Council of Ministers and take it to the Congress of Deputies, the place PSOE and Sumar should win the favorable vote of their ordinary companions on the left, along with PNV and Junts.

Collective bargaining diminished the utmost working day

Faced with the apply of “demonizing the company as a way of attracting the vote,” the employers’ affiliation emphasizes in its concerns of the draft invoice that enterprise organizations defend the discount of the working day, however “adjusted to the needs of each sector through collective bargaining.”

Thus, the employers’ affiliation, citing information from the Collective Agreements statistics of the Ministry of Labor, emphasizes that collective bargaining has made it potential to cut back the utmost working day, reaching agreements that vary between 37.5 and 39.5 hours per week, relying on the productive and organizational wants of corporations and staff. Specifically, it alleges, 24.78% of the agreements with financial results in 2024 are within the working day vary of 37.5 to 38.5 hours per week, which impacts 27.98% of the employees coated by them, and 53.95% of staff have an agreed annual working day of between 38.5 and 39.5 hours per week.

“This flexibility has been crucial to maintaining business competitiveness, while facilitating the conciliation between the work and personal life of workers,” defends CEOE, which warns that the announcement of the discount in working hours to 37.5 hours “ “It has stopped collective bargaining in its tracks.”

“Unfortunately, the above is just the beginning. Labor conflict will be inevitable. The impact of the law will generate added tensions in collective bargaining and those who made concessions in their agreement in exchange for reductions in working hours will demand to maintain the distance achieved,” warns CEOE, which requests that the reduction in working hours be “carefully evaluated” to assess its economic and employment impact and taking into account the reality of the different sectors.

In this sense, he complains that the draft lacks economic memory and offers “a distorted vision of the impact of this reform on companies.” CEOE additionally believes it’s a “gratuitous” assertion to say within the draft that the present configuration of the utmost working day makes it troublesome to adjust to the best to relaxation.

The employers denounce that Labor ignores that some EU international locations, comparable to Greece, have elevated the size of the extraordinary working day. In any case, CEOE specifies, 25 EU international locations nonetheless have most authorized working hours of 40 hours.