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In the midst of the debate on the reduction of the working day in Spain, the Popular Party is preparing a Law on Conciliation that will provide a new approach to work in Spain, with new features that will fuel the debate on the four-day work week.
The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in an interview with ‘Vanity Fair’, which was picked up by Europa Press, has assured that “surely we will be able to work nine hours a day for four days a week. Why not?”, although he has put emphasis on the creation “of a bank of hours and that workers can choose how they use them for reasons of conciliation, and also of a flexible working day.”
In this context, Feijóo has stressed that “the new ways of working give us hope that we can work perhaps a few more hours a day, but one day less a week.” Thus, he has said that the objective “must be to work four days” but has admitted that Spain has “a productivity problem.” “Can we work four days for nine or ten hours? Artificial intelligence, robotics and technology can help us work four days a week because the other three we are going to consume and give a lot of work to people in the leisure, travel, restaurant, etc. industries,” he stressed.
“Red carpet” for new parents
According to Feijóo, the “medium-term objective is to achieve a Spain in which, by working four days a week” they can “have the same productivity as other countries in the world, which will probably also move towards it.”
Feijóo has confessed that Europe “has a problem of an ageing population, with more deaths than births” and for this reason he has focused on the fact that “the first thing is to roll out the red carpet for those who want to be parents in Spain; the second is conciliation; and the third, I want to be the president of free early childhood education, I was in Galicia and now I want to extend it to Spain,” he concluded.
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