It considers that the proposal of the Government of Sánchez ‘threatens social peace’.
It demands that the state government rectify and return this measure to social dialogue.
The Regional Ministry of Enterprise, Employment and Energy, through the Directorate General of Labour and Occupational Health, has today presented its allegations to the draft bill for the reduction of the maximum duration of the ordinary working day, the working day register and the right to disconnection.
In this context, the regional secretary for Labour, Employment and Social Dialogue, Catalina Cabrer, stressed the Government’s commitment to workers and quality employment, as well as the promotion of measures such as the Draft Bill on work-life balance and co-responsibility in the Balearic Islands to preserve a good working environment, the safety of workers and the wellbeing of the workplace.
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The government calls for the withdrawal of the draft bill to reduce working hours
The Government believes that measures with a strong social and economic impact should be taken through social dialogue and by anticipating the needs of workers, companies and the self-employed. Cabrer explained: ‘This government does not agree with the draft bill. We ask the state government to rectify and return this measure to the social dialogue. The working day, as the Workers‘ Statute states, is reserved for collective bargaining.
He added: ‘Its imposition will create tension that will threaten social peace, which is the sine qua non-condition for a territory to be able to develop a project, face the problems it has and be able to work to develop the planned tasks’.
She also stressed that the Balearic Islands have closed the employment figures with an average of 570,000 people affiliated with Social Security, being the leading community in job creation, and with a monthly unemployment figure that does not reach 29,000 and ‘this is thanks to the efforts of the business community, the self-employed and workers’.
Currently,’ explained the regional secretary for Labour, Employment and Social Dialogue, ’the sectoral collective agreements of private companies, 100%, are agreeing to a 40-hour working week, which means that employers and trade unions in our territory are not agreeing to such reduced working hours. And this must be listened to. Minister Yolanda Díaz’s project has not reflected on the particularities of each territory, and that worries us.
He continued: ‘The Government of the Balearic Islands is all about dialogue, dialogue with social partners and employers, and it governs for all citizens. And this law does not respond to the dialogue that we defend in this community. The measures must be agreed with employers and trade unions because both partners are equally important.
Another of the allegations is that the law does not take into account the characteristics of each autonomous community: ‘In the Balearic Islands we have an economic system based on services, which is a national and global benchmark, and a lack of personnel. What we cannot allow is for a measure to be taken without taking into account the particularities of each territory and each sector: it must be born out of dialogue and agreement’.