PSOE and Sumar sign a government agreement that includes a reduction in working hours with no reduction in wages

PSOE and Sumar have reached a programmatic agreement to form a new progressive coalition government after closing its leaders, Pedro Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz, the details of a pact that includes the reduction of working hours without salary reduction. This noon they will present it together with a shock plan against youth unemployment, the reinforcement of the public health system or the increase of the public housing stock

PSOE and Sumar closed late on Monday the agreement to form a new coalition government if Pedro Sanchez manages to be invested president in the coming weeks. In the absence of specifying the support of the nationalist and pro-independence forces necessary for that investiture, Sanchez and Yolanda Diaz finished outlining the details of the pact this Monday in a meeting between the two in which, among other things, they managed to overcome the differences that separated them on the reduction of the working day. The staging of the pact between the two formations will take place this Tuesday at 12.30 in a joint event between the leader of the PSOE and the leader of Sumar in the Reina Sofia Museum.

The pact contemplates promoting by law a maximum working day of 37 hours and a half without salary reduction, one of the main demands of Sumar to which the Socialists have finally agreed. It also includes a shock plan against youth unemployment, the reinforcement of the public health system, the increase of the public housing stock, the extension of paid leave for births, the universalization of education from 0 to 3 years old and “a fair tax reform that makes the banks and the big energy companies contribute to public spending”.