42 Working Hours: Director of Labour Explains How the Reduction Should Be Applied

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The authority detailed that the change must be agreed between employer and worker, and explained how the reduction is distributed according to the weekday.

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The regulation begins its gradual implementation with a reduction to 42 hours a week, marking a milestone that prioritizes the reconciliation between family life and work, although it generates operational challenges for the private sector. This is the analysis of Dagoberto Hernández.

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Since yesterday, Sunday 26 April, the reduction of working hours from 44 to 42 hours per week began, consolidating a new stage of the “Law 40 Hours”, a change in the conditions of the workers to which the different employers will have to stick. This change in the working hours of the worker began in 2024 and has the purpose, among other things, to improve the rest time and the family reconciliation of the people. Who pass from 44 to 42 working h…