Yolanda Díaz proclaims an offensive to make the discount of the day authorized in Parliament | National and worldwide economic system | EUROtoday
The Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, has assured that “Spain” goes and that it isn’t going to “raise from any table” till the discount of the working day at 37.5 hours weekly “see the light” within the Congress of Deputies. The Government doesn’t assure the assist to this rule, particularly by the unfavorable of Junts to assist it. In reality, Catalan formation is the one one which has even introduced that it’ll current an modification to the entire.
“We are going to mobilize, open debates in the academy, write articles and we are going to kick Spain to explain that this measure is key to improving the lives of people, economy and productivity and for 12.5 million people to have identical rights,” stated the second vp of the Government in an act referred to as so as to add this Saturday.
Díaz recalled that the Government has already complied with this measure within the Council of Ministers and that now the voice has the events within the Congress of Deputies. For Díaz, the working day “has many adversaries for economic reasons” and, on this context, he stated: “We are not going to get up from any table until we get” that this measure “see the light in the Congress of the Deputies.” “There is no going back.”
He recalled that the working day in Spain is 38.2 hours per week at the moment; That in communities such because the Basque Country, Navarra or Catalonia, the ratio is round 37.5 and that there are already public workers who’ve it. What is meant now could be that those that work in commerce, agriculture or hospitality have the identical rights as all staff.
“We are going to leave the skin” for these 12.5 million workers who haven’t been in a position to scale back their day. He desires to scale back the working day however sustaining the wage.
In addition to the modification to the totality introduced by Juns this week, the PP Vice -Secretary of the PP, Juan Bravo, recalled this Saturday that the favored ones won’t assist it, since for this it might be mandatory for an settlement between employer and unions, one thing that was not attainable within the negotiation of the norm by the agency employer rejection. The president of the CEOE, Antonio Garamendi, has expressed his rejection repeatedly and the employer organizations may even mobilize among the many parliamentary teams to attempt to cease the minimize.
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