The Ministry of Labor hopes that the Ministry of Economy agrees to process the reduction of working hours urgently, in order to shorten the deadlines and that it applies before the end of the year. The decision on whether the processing is ordinary or urgent rests with the department headed by Carlos Cuerpo, a request that Díaz insisted on in the meeting they held this Monday. The second vice president’s ministry expects the Economy to respond “in the next few hours,” so that the rule reaches the Council of Ministers, if possible, in two weeks. Economy currently does not comment on this deadline set by Labor.
The Ministry of Labor sees it as almost impossible for the reduction in working hours to apply in 2025 if the measure is not processed. This is conveyed by the department headed by Yolanda Díaz, when explaining why it insists so much that the measure now enter the Council of Ministers and that it do so with that urgency. Sources from the department criticize that the Government Delegate Commission for Economic Affairs (CDGAE), which controls the Economy, is stopping the inclusion of this issue in the closest cabinet meetings and that, by accepting it, it does so on an ordinary basis, which stretches processing times.
In Díaz’s ministry they calculate that by ordinary means, the parliamentary process would not begin until after the summer holidays. Thus, Labor estimates, the time frame would be too narrow for the legislative route to culminate in 2025, which would apply to all employees on December 31, 2025. And it must be taken into account that PSOE and Sumar have already failed to comply with the step intermediate, which proposed a cut to 38.5 hours in 2024.
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