The Government approves the discount of the day to 37.5 hours admitting the “complexity” to take it out in Parliament | Economy | EUROtoday

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The Government has authorized this Tuesday on the assembly of the Council of Ministers the Draft Law to scale back the utmost authorized day from 40 to 37.5 hours per week in annual computation and with out wage minimize. After this approval, the Executive sends the textual content of the Draft Law – which was agreed on December 20 between the Ministry of Labor and the CC OO and UGT unions – to obtain the provceptive institutional studies, and subsequently enter the Congress of the deputies, the place the Executive has admitted that he could have issue getting him ahead and that he can go into drive.

This has been expressly acknowledged on Tuesday, on the press convention after the Ministerial Meeting, each the top of Economics, Carlos Body, in addition to the Government spokeswoman and Minister of Education, Pilar Alegría. The first, after the tensions lived with the Second Vice President and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, on account of the chopping of the schedule, has assured that the 2 formations of the Coalition Executive “share the need to advance in the reduction of the day and in Do it as quickly as possible. ” And then admit that the federal government “already has this parliamentary negotiation, which will not be easy”, however that can put all efforts to succeed in a consensus as quickly as attainable.

Along the identical strains, the spokesman has indicated that the Executive “is not naive” and is “aware” of her state of affairs of “parliamentary minority” and the ensuing difficulties to acquire majorities. More particularly, and requested the three showing ministers, for the resistance introduced by Junts to approve the measure within the decrease home, Alegría additionally acknowledged that authorities negotiations with Catalan nationalists are “constant and complex.”

Something extra optimistic was Vice President Díaz, who rejected that Junts’ warning to a attainable refusal to help the discount of the day was a menace to the federal government. “The political formations do not threaten, dialogue and negotiate, and this is what we are going to do,” insisted the Minister of Labor, who has prevented revealing the content material of the conversations which might be already sustaining with Catalan coaching. On the opposite, he most popular to divert the deal with the ranks of the PP, whom he started to be portrayed within the parliamentary vote of the discount of the day.

“The question is whether the PP will repeat the error of labor reform [contra la que votó en contra en el Congreso] Or you will take advantage of this historical change to reconcile with your voters “, who, in Díaz’s opinion,” also want the reduction of working time. ” The president has said that the party headed by Alberto Núñez Feijóo must set if her priority is “having an absolutely destructive and useless opposition.”

Citizen support

In any case, Díaz has recognized, within the framework of negotiations with Junts, which Catalonia has its own business fabric with a strong presence of SMEs and, therefore, the Government will impact it. But it has also launched a warning to any possible vote against the maximum day of 37.5 hours: “When a measure is won on the street, it is very difficult to find reasons to knock it down,” he said in reference to the citizen support that the Government finds to this extent.

To the difficulties recognized by the Government to carry out the measure in Parliament, the pressure that business organizations have announced this Tuesday that will exert in Congress is joined. The president of the employer CEOE, Antonio Garamendi, has assured that the entrepreneurs “will defend their positions (of rejection of the hourly reduction) and will transfer their opinions, also legitimate to political parties.”

All these difficulties do not discourage Díaz, who has piloted negotiation with entrepreneurs and unions to reduce the maximum legal day in the last eleven months. “It will be a debate [parlamentario] simpler than it seems; Being complex, it is well surrounded and the force that substantial will be of the people, not of the political formations, ”mentioned the Minister of Labor. In reality, this Tuesday has defended as soon as once more that the measure will “substantially improve productivity, reduce absenteeism and democratize benefits [de las compañías]”.

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