Spanish Parliament Rejects Bill to Shorten Working Week

The measure sought to cut the maximum work week to 37.5 hours, while critics warned of higher costs.
Spanish Parliament Rejects Bill to Shorten Working Week
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaks during a session at Parliament in Madrid on Dec. 12, 2018. Reuters/Susana Vera
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Spain’s lower house of parliament has rejected a bill that would have shortened the working week, delivering a setback to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist-led minority government as it struggles to push through promised reforms.

In a late vote on Sept. 10, opposition parties joined with Catalonia’s pro-independence Junts to block the bill from advancing to debate.

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