Madrid (EFE) in terms of flexibility, conciliation, productivity and occupational health.
“The time has come to address the law on the use of time”, affirmed the second vice president and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, this Friday at the presentation of the study, and has opted for a regulation of working time that allows to have “ time to live, to think, to get bored and do what we like”.
Díaz has established a direct relationship between work times and “very deficient” productivity in Spain.
“We have less productivity because it has been shown that there are factors such as extending the working day and the happy presence that not only do not improve productivity, but also worsen it,” said the also head of Social Economy.
Diaz bets on a flexible working day
The vice-president has once again recalled that the 40-hour day has been in force in Spain for more than a century and has defended that enjoying “healthy, sustainable and flexible” days will make the economy more productive.
Díaz has focused especially on the flexibility of the working day, ensuring that if workers can decide on their working time so that their position “accommodates their needs and not the other way around, everything is better.”
The director of the Vice President’s Legal Coordination, Professor María Amparo Ballester, has affirmed that the study “points to a reduction in the maximum working day”, which “has to be real and feasible” and allow flexibility “so that the work is suitable for working people”.
One of the authors of the report, ESADE Labor Law professor Ana Ginés, is the one who has outlined some of the report’s conclusions, such as the aforementioned reduction in working hours, which must be “gradual”, taking into account the specificities of the sectors and have incentives.
Obligation for companies to report all aspects of work
Another of the measures they propose is that companies are obliged to inform workers of all aspects of work and their hours, also for those people with “unpredictable hours”, so that they know when the company may require their work and when they can refuse it.
Likewise, the study advocates the “compaction” of the days, shortening the time at which work ends, reducing interruptions in the split shift or reforming night work so as not to be able to work more than five consecutive nights.
The second vice president and also a candidate for the elections on July 23 for Sumar has defended that the law on the use of time is a task that must be addressed “immediately”, and has trusted that in the next government they will have the opportunity to do so.