Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE) 32 hour working day.
Santana, has toured the commercial area of Triana “to speak, not only with merchants, but also with passers-by, about Sumar’s proposals for the general elections”, among which is “the gradual reduction” of the day work to leave it at “32 hours a week” because this political confluence “wants families to be able to see their sons and daughters more than their bosses.”
Sumar understands, Santana told journalists, that this reduction “can be done now, not only because the economic model has changed after so long, but also because of the commitment to technology.”
The gradual reduction of the working day to 32 hours “is already being seen in other European countries and also in the rest of the world” and “it is working”, he said.
In fact, he stressed, “in our country there are already some examples of pilot projects for reductions in working hours that are being carried out by companies” and also by the public administration.
Santana has stressed that Spain was “the first country to approve an eight-hour working day, a little over a century ago, and yet today there are still those who raise their hands to their heads” with this proposal, he has criticized.
What Sumar proposes is “to better reconcile personal life, family life and work life”, proposing “a guarantee of defense for the social well-being of the people”.
“We understand that to live better you have to defend proposals like this,” she said, a message that she considered “employees and employers will understand.”
To this end, he proposes “incentives so that these types of policies can be carried out” with which, in his opinion, “the majority of businessmen will agree.”
As he has assessed, “many times productivity is increased even though the working day is reduced and we have already seen this in the pilot projects that are already in operation”, because “employees are happier, more motivated and work better”, and Therefore, “they are more efficient in their work, in the time they are developing it.”
What Sumar proposes “is not crazy, far from it”, and it means “having not only happy entrepreneurs, but also happy workers”.
There are “many companies that have already reduced the working day to that time”, a measure that “would also help to encourage those young people who are unemployed to join the labor market” because, by having some reductions in hours, “they leave to need more workers”.
For Noemí Santana, “the active economy will help people live better, and also generate more jobs.”
For the Sumar candidate for the province of Las Palmas, it is “a matter of will, both political, to regulate it through a law, and of companies and entrepreneurs.”
Santana has been confident that “Yolanda Díaz is going to know how to do it very well” because “one of the broadest social pacts that there has been in this country was the labor reform and it came out with the unanimity of the employers, the unions, platforms social” and that “our candidate achieved, Yolanda Díaz achieved it.”
Therefore, “if there is someone who can successfully carry out a proposal like this, it is our candidate, Yolanda Díaz,” he said.
“They told us that the labor reform was crazy, to improve working conditions, that this was going to generate more unemployment,” he recalled, “and in Spain and the Canary Islands we have record numbers of people employed more than ever, with higher salaries, better conditions,” he asserted.
These changes “have not been a catastrophe, nor for the companies and, much less, for the employees”, for which he has asked that “we leave the catastrophic messages to others, to those of Spain in black and white” because Sumar “proposes enthusiasm, hope and a better life”. EFE