Junts will present a comprehensive amendment to the reduction of working hours: "Catalonia's productive fabric has been turned away."

Miriam Nogueras, spokesperson for Junts in the Congress of Deputies, has announced that her party will present a comprehensive amendment to the government's bill to reduce the maximum working week to 37.5 hours.

" We have found the door closed to the possibility of negotiating even a comma of this text , which was negotiated only with Spanish unions. The productive fabric of Catalonia has been turned away," Nogueras lamented.

Junts' announcement comes a day before the text is due to be approved by the Council of Ministers, but Nogueras has already proposed amending the entire bill because he sees it as " a frontal attack on self-employed workers and small and medium-sized businesses " in Catalonia.

Junts has repeatedly stated that the vote for reducing working hours was closer to "no" than "yes," given that the party believes it would be detrimental to a large part of Catalan business.

In fact, Junts announced in February that they would present "counterproposals" to the law , which was planned for that same month but has been delayed for various reasons (the most recent being the blackout that Spain suffered last Monday, which forced the holding of a single-issue Council of Ministers meeting).

Jordi Turull, the party's general secretary, explained that February that Junts was negotiating with the Ministry of Labor but that, at that time, he was "closer to saying no" because the text contemplated by the Government is "a shot in the foot of collective bargaining."