The law to reduce the maximum work day at 40 hours at 37.5 a week will be discussed at the Congress of Deputies for the first time next week. It will be the first examination of the star measure of the Ministry of Labor, which Yolanda Díaz agreed with the unions and without the employer, and against which they presented amendments to the totality Junts, PP and Vox. These will arrive at the plenary of next week, on Wednesday, according to parliamentary sources. In work they insist that they continue to negotiate to carry out the norm.
This first exam to the reduction of the day was going to occur in July, before the summer break of the Cortes, but the Ministry of Labor postponed its vote, without having yet reached an agreement with Junts, and before the convulsed political climate for the outbreak of the case of corruption of Santos Cerdán.
Now, in work they indicate that “the reduction of the working day is a debate that no longer admits more postponed” and considers that the different parliamentary groups must position themselves on the measure. If the amendments thrive to the totality, they would knock the norm, so the Executive should re -approve another zero law even if the reduction of the working day.
“We wanted it to be voted in July. We decided to give margin to the will to dialogue and agree. Today you can no longer be waiting: there are more than 12 million working people who are waiting for this measure, who know that their time is also a right,” sources of work argue.
Yolanda Díaz points to the PP for not even negotiating
In the Ministry of Labor they affirm that they are negotiating with Junts and point to the Popular Party for not even wanting to sit down with the second vice president, as Yolanda Díaz denounced yesterday. As he said in an interview on TVE, he was going to meet with the PP spokesman, but this meeting was canceled. “Our intention is to gather,” they insist on their team, which place the first opposition party to address a measure that affects a large part of the workers and support broad sectors of citizenship, according to surveys.
“The Government has already done their job,” they consider in work, as Vice President Yolanda Díaz said yesterday, although they need to negotiate so that the law exceeds this first obstacle and that the content of the legislation can be discussed in Congress. A debate demanded by the majority unions, CCOO and UGT, who agreed to legislation, and that have branded as a “democratic fraud” these amendments to all of the three conservative parties.
