Spain will test reducing working hours to increase productivity

Spain will test reducing working hours to increase productivity

These improvements should be applied within one yearwhile the company You must maintain the program for at least two years.

The debate about the call “scandinavian model”which holds that productivity increases if working hours are reducedit is not new, but it gained strength during the COVID-19 crisis among companies, the public sector and politicians.

In the first year of the project, the Government will partially finance the salary costs of companies that reduce their working hours and also will help finance training and the cost of measures to improve productivity.

They can only be part of the program workers with a full-time permanent contract and the women they should be represented according to their proportion in the workforce of the company

at least the 30% of the workforce must reduce their working hours if a company has up to 20 workersMeanwhile in a company with between 21 and 249 employees at least 25% of its workers It should be part of the plan.

The Spanish telecommunications giant, telephonehas offered its employees the possibility of working four days a weekexpanding a pilot program in which some 150 workersbut in exchange for a 12% pay cut.

Source: Ambito

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