Catalan SMEs demand to speak about absenteeism and time flexibility in negotiation on the Law of Day Reduction | Economy | EUROtoday

The employer of Catalan SMEs Pimec is making a spherical with the parliamentary teams to elucidate the the explanation why, “the proposal to reduce the working day as it has been formulated (in Parliament) is absolutely unfeasible for small and medium enterprises,” mentioned its president, Antoni Cañete, on the doorways of Congress, after interviewing with the favored group.

Although, this group of SMEs, carefully linked to the orbit of Junnts – a celebration that has already introduced that it’s going to current an modification to the totality to the proposal of the regulation to scale back the day – considers that if this rule is “reformulate 360 ​​degrees” it may have indicators of getting forward. This reformulation in parliamentary negotiation and with the federal government that’s being carried out ought to embrace, in response to Cañete, some points such because the adoption of measures in opposition to absenteeism, and favor of productiveness and time flexibility (by the irregular distribution of the day and the additional hours).

The Catalan employer chief has additionally referred to the necessity for these negotiations to incorporate the features associated to the “time space” of implementation of the norm. The invoice supplies that every one firms and collective agreements acquire as most working hours 37.5 hours per week on December 31. But for Cañete it’s “impossible to do this practically overnight.” And he has identified the particular problem they’ve, for various causes, SMEs which have intensive labor, akin to cleansing firms; or pharmacies, whose downside is the dearth of pharmaceutical professionals to interchange the opening shifts of those institutions after the day minimize.

He has additionally claimed that the brand new regulation of the time registration, which additionally contains this regulation, “is provided with a company dimension.” That is, that the calls for of the brand new document that have to be obligatory and interoperable is tailored ultimately to the means obtainable by SMEs.

Collective bargaining

Pimec, like the remainder of the employer organizations that rejected the settlement to scale back the utmost authorized day (CEOE-Cepymes) considers that the 37.5 hours per week shouldn’t be fastened within the Law of the Statute of Workers, however that it must be reached by collective bargaining. However, Cañete has urged that if the textual content that’s now within the Congress of Deputies is modified “in SME key”, with the aforementioned points, amongst others, their detractors may see with higher eyes the minimize by regulation.

Said all this, and although the federal government has determined to course of this regulation for the emergency course of. Precisely this Tuesday, the Congress desk has prolonged its time period of amendments for one more week, and sources of parliamentary negotiation predict that these delays may very well be prolonged even till after the summer season. “The fact that the deadline for presenting amendments means that something is happening” within the subject of negotiation, Optimistic Cañete is occurring.