Spain: government prepares framework for remote working

Yolanda Diaz, Spain’s labour minister, has announced the upcoming presentation of a legislative framework to govern the practice of remote working, setting out how working time can be monitored, rest conditions, as well as the right to work-life balance and to disconnect. According to the labour minister, the aim is to ratify ILO Convention 177 and to amend article 13 of the Spanish workers' statute, in order to provide a better framework for working conditions and guarantee employee rights.