Spain: shift towards a 37.5-hour working week

Yolanda Diaz, Spain’s labour minister, wants to make shorter working hours one of her main objectives, in order to achieve a better work-life balance and encourage a more balanced sharing of responsibilities within families. She promises a reduction in working hours without any reduction in pay “to increase lifetimes, because we are in the first quarter of the 21st century and technology makes this possible”, while also pointing out that the legal working week of 40 hours has not changed since