In order to carry out this project, it is based on an argument: Spain has had a 40-hour workday for “a century”, since the 1919 decree that set the daily limit at 8 hours.
It seems that in the coming weeks, Minister Díaz will receive a report from “experts” who have been working for almost a year to design a “broad and multidisciplinary perspective”.
And from this point on, the drafting of what the vice president has called a “Working Time Uses Law” will be prepared, which is unlikely to be completed before the end of the legislature, although it will mark the final stretch of the labor policy debate.
One of Yolanda Díaz’s main objectives with this law is to “cut the working day without reducing wages and without it being rigid”. Since on the other hand, the vice president expresses that “the time has come to talk about working time, the time of citizens, and the time to organize society.”
The Secretary of State for Labor added that it is not just a matter of acting in quantitative terms, but also in qualitative terms, so that the workday is much more flexible, since the main idea is that workers can better reconcile work and family life, and not just be dependent on the company's product needs.