Spain's ministry of labour has opened negotiations with the social partners to move towards a gradual reduction in working hours. The aim is to reduce the current 40-hour working week to 38.5 hours this year and 37.5 hours in 2025.
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...
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Cécile Thibaud
Freelance