It seems that the Government sent the draft order, which will regulate the promotion of the four-day workday, for public consultation in mid-June, and it is expected to publish the definitive order in the coming days, according to sources involved in the negotiations.
This pilot project has a budget of 10 million euros, but each company that launches it will have to comply with the bases that will be published soon, and approximately 60 or 70 SMEs will be able to benefit from it, according to data from El Periódico.
It should be noted that to join this plan, companies will have to incorporate organizational measures, both in production processes and training, to generate an improvement in productivity that compensates for the higher wage costs. And in order to promote all this, the Government is planning temporary direct aid to compensate for all the costs assumed by companies.
The project also raises the possibility of partially financing the salary costs of workers who are involved in the reduction of this working day, and the costs of training in terms of optimizing working time, as well as the costs of external collaborations or internal personnel to redesign processes.