Spain: MPs reject move to 37.5-hour working week

Cutting the working week was one of the government’s flagship projects and had been championed for two years by labour minister Yolanda Diaz, who represents the left wing of the government. She had hoped that an agreement with the social partners and the drafting of a text supported by both trade unions and employers’ organisations would overcome the reluctance of the parliamentary right, but this was not to be. The bill reached parliament without prior consensus between employer and employee g