Spain Plans to Cut Workweek to Improve Work-Life Balance
- Government agreed to raise the minimum wage last week
- Premier has been frustrated that growth hasn’t stoked support
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Just days after Spain’s economy was revealed to be far outpacing its peers, Pedro Sanchez’s government has a new message for voters: stop working so much.
In a move that risks invoking international stereotypes about the Mediterranean lifestyle, the premier and his cabinet agreed on Tuesday that employees in the fourth-biggest member of the euro zone should now have a shorter week.