Work and self-employment

01Each party's position

• Frente Amplio (Sumar)

  Earlier position

  It backs cutting the statutory maximum working week to 37.5 hours with no pay cut (the Labour Ministry bill Congress sent back in September 2025), a minimum wage at 60% of the average wage and self-employed contributions on real income.

  Source:El Congreso tumba la reducción de la jornada con los votos en contra de PP, Vox y Junts (The Objective)10 September 2025

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  reducir la jornada laboral a 37,5 horas semanales

• Podemos

  Earlier position

  The party proposes a 35-hour maximum working week, a minimum wage of 1,800 euros a month and higher dismissal compensation. It voted to advance the 37.5-hour bill in September 2025.

  Source:Podemos propone la subida del salario mínimo a 1.800 euros (Qué!)20 September 2026

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  Podemos propone la subida del salario mínimo a 1.800 euros

• PP

  Earlier position

  In September 2025 the party voted to send the 37.5-hour week bill back to the government. For the self-employed it proposes zero contributions in the first year, a VAT exemption up to 85,000 euros of turnover and half-yearly filings.

  Source:Feijóo lanza un Plan Integral para Autónomos y promete eximir del IVA a los ingresos inferiores a 85.000 euros (press coverage of PP plan)18 October 2025

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  Feijóo lanza un Plan Integral para Autónomos y promete eximir del IVA a los ingresos inferiores a 85.000 euros

• PSOE

  Earlier position

  The party backed a 37.5-hour week (bill defeated in Congress in September 2025), yearly minimum wage rises and self-employed contributions based on real income, whose brackets it extended for 2026.

  Source:Proyecto de ley de reducción de la jornada laboral: enmiendas a la totalidad aprobadas en el Pleno del Congreso (10-09-2025)10 September 2025

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  Enmiendas a la totalidad de PP, Vox, Junts y UPN aprobadas por 178 votos a favor y 170 en contra; el Grupo Socialista votó en contra de las enmiendas

• Vox

  Earlier position

  The party proposes repealing the 2021 labour reform and mandatory time tracking, exempting self-employed workers earning below the minimum wage from social security contributions, and filed a blocking amendment against the 37.5-hour week.

  Source:Vox se propone derogar tres normas por cada una nueva, empezando por vivienda, cambio climático, igualdad, y la reforma laboral (Infobae, sobre el Programa de Desregulación de Vox)27 June 2026

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  Vox se propone derogar tres normas por cada una nueva, empezando por vivienda, cambio climático, igualdad, y la reforma laboral