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At Tuesday’s meeting, the Spanish government approved a decree-law to regulate teleworking.
The Government spokesperson, María Jesús Montero, explained that the worker and the employer must agree to telework in writing voluntarily if it exceeds 30 percent of the weekly working day, two days a week, for three months.
Legislation passed in advance by employer and employee interest groups ensures that telecommuting does not negatively affect an employee in terms of salary, job stability, working hours, training and professional development, he added.
The government spokesperson explained that it is up to the employer to provide the conditions for teleworking and pay the costs incurred, but the latter must be agreed upon by the parties through collective bargaining. Companies are obliged to include teleworking rules in a collective agreement.
The government will grant a transition period of one year for the application of the regulation, which will take effect twenty days after its promulgation. The regulation does not apply to civil servants, a separate regulation is being prepared for them.
The Catalan government announced on Tuesday that it will reduce the quarantine requirement for the coronavirus from the current two weeks to ten days. The measure will take effect next week.
The Spanish Ministry of Health is also studying the possibility of reducing the bribery blockade at the national level. This time is expected to be shortened for people who have been in close contact with those infected, which until now has only been possible with a negative PCR test. Infected people certified according to current regulations can be released from quarantine on the 10th day if they have been asymptomatic for at least three days.
Health Minister Salvador Illa said in a radio interview that he was concerned about the situation in the Madrid province, which produces a third of the national number of infected, but was optimistic that the restrictions introduced a day ago would slow the spread. .
He called on those living in a province with a population of 6.6 million to exercise restraint in the coming period and reduce their travels, programs and meetings as much as possible.
The Autonomous Community government has so far restricted the free movement of people in seven municipalities and six districts of the capital, but is already examining whether to extend the restrictions to other areas.
According to data from the Spanish Ministry of Health this Tuesday, 953 new cases of the 3125 certified in the country were registered in 24 hours in Madrid. In the past eight months, coronavirus infection has been identified in more than 682,000 people.
In the southern European country, the infection has so far claimed 30,904 deaths, with 468 deaths in the last week. There are 10,629 people hospitalized with Covid-19 disease, of which 1,348 need intensive care.
Regarding the capacity of health institutions, 9.6% of hospital beds are occupied by patients with coronavirus and 16.8% in intensive care units. In Madrid, the workload of hospitals is 25% and intensive care 36%.
According to the Ministry of Health, between September 12 and 18, more than 703,000 coronavirus tests were carried out in public and private care, of which 12.8 percent yielded positive results.
(MTI)
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