2024-07-28 17:14:26
Ministry of Labor and Social Economy they will meet again on Monday morning with CC OO, UGT, CEOE and Cepyme after offering in the last meeting of the negotiating table the possibility of gradually incorporating the working day of 37.5 hours a week throughout 2025, instead of applying its validity from January 1 of that year, all with the objective Attract CEOE and Cepyme to the agreement. .
Labor considers this greater flexibility in the implementation of the reduction in working hours it will help employers reach a possible agreement, because there would no longer be “significant objections” against this measure, promised in the Government agreement between PSOE and Sumar. However, according to the statements of CEOE and Cepyme in the last few days, business organizations are still not in favor of a reduction in working hours imposed on them.
For now, the Ministry led by Yolanda Díaz He was willing to negotiate with the social agents on several axes: the gradual incorporation of working hours during 2025 “by introducing more additional permits or more holidays” or other types of measures; a greater margin regarding the irregular distribution of the working day, and the right to digital disconnection, which is already found in the labor regulations, but which he wants to deepen in the middle of the digital transition.
Regarding the irregular distribution of the day, at present Companies can distribute up to 10% of the annual working day irregularly. What Labor proposed was that this 10% would refer to the working hours companies had when the rule came into force and not to the new reduced working hours. According to Labour, this larger margin can benefit, for example, those sectors that have inconsistent production cycles throughout the year, such as agriculture or some hospitality-related activities, where which has a greater workload in the summer or at that time we have to achieve. the results.
With these goals, Labor would like to close an agreement as soon as possible with the social agents including CEOE and Cepyme, although it has not yet been specified whether this offer of flexibility will affect the reduction of the working day to 37.5 hours per. A week implies that the working week is already 38.5 hours in 2024, as stated in the coalition agreement. And the objective of the Ministry is to reach a “country agreement that will be valid for many years and will be really effective, since they are tired of ‘fake’ and cost-motivated measures,” in the words of the Secretary Labor States, Joaquín Perez Rey.
“A measure as important as this, of a structural nature, must have the seal of the social partners,” Pérez Rey said after the board’s final meeting. This goal may mean that the negotiations last a little longer with the aim of including all the social agents. In fact, Labour’s idea is to “make the most of the time frames to reach a great country deal for future generations.”
“What is clear is that we are not going to allow an agreement to fall in the context of the mutual trust and construction that takes place at the social dialogue table by trying to speed up the end of the text by a few weeks,” announced Pérez Rey a few weeks. Days ago. So what Labor is now proposing is a “less abrupt” reduction in working hours, given that it has a full 2025 cushion.
The unions are planning a mobilization for September
For their part, CC OO and UGT have warned that if no significant and concrete progress is made at this Monday’s meeting to reduce the working day, cThey will request a mobilization battery at the beginning of September, although they will continue to negotiate. The general secretary of CC OO, Unai Sordo, considers that the negotiations between the Government, unions and employers to reduce the working day to 38.5 hours in 2024 and to 37.5 hours in 2025 have reached a “loop”.
“The negotiations have stalled and there will be a mobilization in September. In other words, I don’t see any other situation because the position of the CEOE has not yet changed due to the Government’s moves,” said the union leader a few days ago. In fact, Sordo does not see “any possibility of an agreement” on reducing working hours in the short term. “The reason is that the CEOE has not yet explicitly stated that it is negotiating a reduction in working time,” he said a few days ago.
This lack of agreement in the short term suggests, according to Sordo, that there is an attempt to remove the situation due to mobilization, or directly urging the Government to take action on the matter and seek support for a bill that will reduce the day work to 37.5 hours in 2025.
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