The president of the Canary Islands Confederation of Employers (CCE) of Las Palmas, Pedro Ortega, has expressed this Tuesday his rejection of the reduction of the working day for being a "political decision that goes against the competitiveness of companies and implies a hidden increase of the minimum wage of 6%".
Ortega has warned that the reduction of the working day will have an impact on a decrease in productivity and competitiveness, while increasing labor costs, in the press conference he offered to present the report on the Canary Islands economy of 2023 prepared by the CCE.
In his opinion, it is an "imposition", a decision taken that has been wanted to be "decorated" with the so-called "social dialogue", when it is "a social monologue because there is no tripartite agreement but imposition by one of the parties".
He stated that it is not understood either in a scenario in which the Canary Islands and Spain are falling in productivity as the figures show, as factors are added that reduce it even more and he has also questioned the moment in which that decision is adopted.
The general secretary of the CCE, José Cristóbal García, added that the reduction of the working day affects tourism and industry to a greater extent, so they would lose productivity and competitiveness and increase costs.
In his opinion, these measures "are not oriented to the creation of the economy and the maintenance of sustainability, but to other things, they respond to populism".
