2023-05-17 13:57:21
Three Asturian industrial SMEs have requested aid from the Ministry of Industry’s pilot program to reduce the working week to four days without cutting wages. The Ministry, however, cannot provide your name for reasons of data protection. In total, 41 Spanish companies with a workforce of less than 250 workers have asked to participate in the project.
“This first pilot program shows that companies are open to a new way of organizing their days, with reductions in working time without affecting wages,” said the Minister of Industry, Héctor Gómez, on Thursday.
The SMEs that have applied to participate in the four-day work week pilot come from thirteen autonomous communities: Catalonia (11), Andalusia (6), Galicia (4), the Basque Country (4), Asturias (3), Navarra ( 3), the Canary Islands (3), Madrid (2), Cantabria (1), Castilla y León (1), Castilla-La Mancha (1), Extremadura (1) and the Balearic Islands (1).
The program seeks to promote the improvement of productivity in small and medium-sized private companies that carry out industrial activity through grants of up to 200,000 euros if they reduce 10% of the working day for a minimum of 24 months without lowering wages.
The budget credit assigned to this call amounts to 9,650,000 euros, although the total value of eligible expenses requested by the 41 projects submitted is more than three times less (2.83 million euros).
According to the Ministry of Industry, the total number of workers assigned to the pilot projects is 503 people.
The call for the pilot program established that the number of participating workers must affect at least 30% of the workforce in companies with up to 20 workers and 25% in companies with between 21 and 249 workers and, furthermore, it is only applicable between people with a full-time indefinite contract at the time the project starts.
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