The bill would cut the workweek to 37.5 hours

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1. The bill would reduce the maximum ordinary working day to 37.5 hours of effective work per week on yearly average. The current legal maximum is 40 hours per week.
2. It would strengthen the right to disconnect: the company could not ask for work through digital means outside agreed hours, and refusing those requests could not bring retaliation or worse treatment for the worker.
3. It would create a new daily working-time record kept through digital means, which each worker would fill in personally and directly when starting and ending the workday. Companies would have to keep the records for four years, and failing to comply can lead to the contract being presumed full time.
4. The reduction of working hours could not affect salaries nor eliminate more favorable rights or conditions that workers already had.
5. Collective agreements and companies without one would have until December 31, 2025 to adapt to the new working day. Part-time contracts with hours equal to or above the new maximum would automatically become full-time contracts.
6. It would toughen penalties for breaking working-time rules: missing records or falsified data would count as one violation per affected worker, with fines from €1,000 to €10,000 in the cases covered.

Who it affects

• Employees: They would work at most 37.5 hours per week on yearly average, with no salary cut.
• Companies: They would have to adapt working hours and agreements before December 31, 2025 and keep a digital working-time record, with tougher fines if they fail to comply.
• Negotiating committees of collective agreements: They would have until December 31, 2025 to adapt their working hours to the new maximum.
• Domestic workers: Their maximum working day would be adjusted to the new rule, and their working-time record could be kept by any physical or digital means suited to their resources.
• Part-time workers: Part-time contracts with hours equal to or above the new maximum would become full time; the rest would keep their hours with a proportional salary increase.

Words worth knowing

Registro de jornada (working-time record)

A daily log of when each worker starts and finishes work, which the company must keep.

Convenio colectivo (collective agreement)

An agreement negotiated between unions and employers that sets working conditions for a sector or company.

Horas complementarias (complementary hours)

Extra hours that can be agreed with a part-time worker, in addition to their ordinary hours.

Cómputo anual (yearly average)

A calculation of working hours spread over the whole year, instead of fixing them by the week.

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