Plan for shorter working hours

DESPITE the fragility of their position in the lower house of parliament and the fact that there will be a new election in June of this year, the interim government is determined to push ahead with its plan to change the working pattern within Spain and with a majority in the upper house, it is quite possible that this will be approved.

The intention is that the majority of employers would effectively remove the long lunchtime siesta period and introduce a closing time for offices in particular of 6pm, in order to ensure that families were able to spend more time together and to make working life more pleasurable for the majority of people.