Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Spain’s Socialists Try to Steer Centre with Labour Reform

 
Reuters, 04/11 15:17 CET

By Elisabeth O’Leary and Blanca Rodríguez

MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s opposition Socialists, needing to attract centrist voters to realise their hopes of ousting the ruling party in next month’s election, are proposing labour reforms which aim to be kinder to workers while reassuring the business community.

In doing so, they are will be navigating a tricky course, a fact that Jordi Sevilla, the Socialists’ party’s chief economic advisor and a potential economy minister, acknowledges.

“We have to be capable of getting the flexibility we need for progress in productivity in the globalised economy of the 21st century, but we can’t achieve that by weakening one side,” Sevilla told Reuters in an interview.

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Source: Euronews

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