You might follow her on social media (@congafas_ on Instagram), where, with humor, illustrations and heartbreaking messages, Laura Camps de Agorreta (Barcelona, ​​1984) She defends the rights of the working class. She also addresses parenting, the physical and mental exhaustion of mothers, the lack of support, and the difficulty of work-life balance. This digital activist and communications consultant has now published an essay. We don't have enough time. (Bruguera 2025), where she reflects on the scourge of our times: the lack of time and the relationship between work and life.

If he worked full-time, Mirko would have to work seven and a half hours, but he's been working five and a half for the last six years. During this time, he's taken a reduced work schedule to balance work and raising his three children with his wife. They also have two children, one each, from previous relationships. So, in total, there are days or weeks when they have five children. They've lived in Barcelona for over twenty-five years, but they don't have extended family; he's German and she's from Venezuela, and therefore they've had to be very organized over the years.

Together for Catalonia has taken a significant risk by rejecting the proposal. star Vice President Yolanda Díaz's proposal to reduce the working week to 37.5 hours per week. Risks are necessary in times of weakness or uncertainty, and it's clear that Puigdemont's party is under a pressing need to gain visibility and establish its own profile. It has undoubtedly achieved this; what remains to be seen is whether the risk will have been worth it. It's worth remembering that, according to the latest CEO survey, 70% of Junts voters were in favor of reducing working hours, at a time when the prevailing perception is that, while the Spanish economy is doing reasonably well, this boom is not extending its effects to the majority of the population.

For months, Sumar has seen its electoral prospects plummet in the polls. Hence, one of the party's strategic objectives is to ensure that Yolanda Díaz's brand is identified as the driving force of social progress within the Spanish government. The reduction of the working day plays a central role in this goal. Such importance has been given to it, as the Second Vice President of the Spanish government and Minister of Labor toured various parts of the country before the summer to promote it, and the party designed a specific campaign to promote it with the slogan "Work less, live better." Díaz has become deeply involved, while the PSOE has remained in the background, facing a proposal that Sumar uses to establish its own profile within the coalition. For all these reasons, this Wednesday's defeat in Congress is above all a first for Díaz.

After this Wednesday the The Congress of Deputies will reject the bill to reduce working hours. At 37.5 hours, which also included a new time record, the Second Vice President and Minister of Labor took less than 24 hours to make a move: the Ministry of Labor opened the prior public consultation on the draft Royal Decree for the reform of the time record in an attempt to approve it separately from the reduction in working hours.

"We're staying because there have been no changes." Less than 24 hours before the debate in Congress on the Junts amendment against the reduction of the working day, Carles Puigdemont's party has confirmed that the Spanish government will suffer a major parliamentary setback this Wednesday and has blamed the Spanish government for the failure of the negotiations, which have dragged on for months. "We will not cast our votes without guarantees, and even less so on laws that put the viability of Catalonia's business and productive fabric at risk," argued the spokesperson for the Junts party in Congress, Míriam Nogueras, at a press conference. She accused Sumar of seeking a "quick headline" and of failing to respond with "specific" details to June's requests. Nogueras argued that her party is not against the reduction of the working day, but that the Ministry of Labor's proposal "is incompatible with the welfare state" because "it forces those [business owners] who cannot afford it to reduce their wages." Yolanda Díaz's party, on the other hand, attributes the opposition by the regional government officials to political will rather than a clash over the text's content, and also due to Junts' ties to the Catalan employers' association Foment del Treball.

Given the lack of parliamentary support, the Spanish government decided to postpone the process until after the summer. the negotiation of the reduction of the working day to 37.5 hours per week. It is one of the great promises of the current legislature, especially for the person who has championed it from the very beginning, the second vice president and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, who is also the visible face of Sumar, the minority partner in the coalition government.

Changes to school and college teaching staff for the new academic year: teachers over 55 years of age will be able to request a reduction of two hours of class per week. As specified in the Official Journal of the Generalitat (DOGC) this Monday, teachers who benefit from this benefit will have to have reached the required age before September 1st and, for the first time, will not be required to remain at school during these hours. However, USTEC, the largest union in the sector, has expressed dissatisfaction with certain conditions of the agreement, and there is uncertainty about how all the staff who adopt the proposal will be replaced.

Everyone has experienced it at some point: during shorter work weeks, due to a holiday, we generally feel more rested and in a better mood. And, moreover, we probably perform better during the four days we spend at work. This isn't just a personal perception: several international studies have found a positive relationship between shorter work hours and improved employee well-being and job performance.

It has been days since the Congress of Deputies brought together so many senior executives from some of the country's main companies, and also the highest representative of the Catalan employers' association Foment del Treball, Josep Sánchez Llibre, and from the Spanish CEOE, Antonio Garamendi. In fact, they are all usually reluctant to be photographed at events that go beyond the business and economic sphere, and they put up even more obstacles if they enter fully into a political space.

"We have been analyzing the situations regarding the mandates of the most representative agents, we have generated an internal debate, and unanimously it has been proposed to maintain the two-term limit, adding the possibility of a third term under exceptional conditions." This is how the president of Pimec, Antoni Cañete, announced a key point of the modification of the statutes voted on at the general meeting this Tuesday, which until now limited the number of terms for a single president to two. As Cañete pointed out, this "2+1" concept would be used "only in circumstances where a third term must be considered."