Spain: four-day week pilot project launched

At the start of February, Spanish left-wing party Más País announced that the government had agreed to launch a pilot project, led by the minister of industry, to reduce the working week to four days, in line with a measure that was included in its electoral programme. Inigo Errejón, leader of Más País, says the pilot will be launched in companies that request to take part. He specified that to make sure the shift has no financial impact on the company or workers concerned, the state will cover the salary cost of the working time reduction. The government will also support reorganisation of production and digital changes at companies in order to increase productivity. A budget of €50 million has been allocated to the efforts. Its impact will be assessed at the end of the three-year experiment.