Spanish Labour Minister Yolanda Diaz announces the government is taking the first steps towards reducing the working week in the country from having a maximum legal working day of 40 hours to 37.5 hours. However there is no guarantee of a majority to pass the bill in parliament at this stage.
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00:00Indeed, we have reduced, we have modified article 34 and we have gone from having a maximum legal day of 40 hours to 37 and a half hours without wage reduction.
00:11In the logic that we said before not to devalue wages.
00:16And it is shown, I insist, that from a permanence in the workplace, productivity not only does not grow but also decreases.
00:24Therefore, this is the element that we are going to correct with the reduction of only half an hour a day in the working day of the workers in our country.