Yolanda Diaz, Spain’s labour minister, has announced the upcoming presentation of a legislative framework to govern the practice of remote working, setting out how working time can be monitored, rest conditions, as well as the right to work-life balance and to disconnect. According to the labour minister, the aim is to ratify ILO Convention 177 and to amend article 13 of the Spanish workers' statute, in order to provide a better framework for working conditions and guarantee employee rights.
With Covid-19 having led companies to urgently adopt remote working arrangements during the period of lockdown, now is the time to “establish a guide, offer protection to employees and guarantee the right to disconnect”, Yolanda Diaz argues. While 30% of employees could in theory carry out their tasks remotely, only 8% actually previously did so, according to a study by the Bank of Spain. The proportion is far lower according to Eurostat, which indicates that in 2019 only 2.5% of Spanish...
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