Work-life Balance

Aciturri implements a package of measures for the work-life balance. Specifically, Aciturri's workforce benefits, among others, from the following measures:

Spatial Flexibility

Regulated by the Banking and Remote Working Policy. Banking is a concept combining the daily working day with the monthly working period so that the adequate working time is fully regulated at the end of each calendar month, and the daily working time can be distributed irregularly by each worker during each month within the limits set by the compulsory working hours, which are from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. from Monday to Thursday (with a 30 to 60-minute lunch break) and from 9 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. on Fridays and in August. Therefore, self-regulation allows each employee, based on the established flexibility rules, to compensate for the excesses and shortcomings of the daily working day in the current calendar month so that, at the end of each month, the working period carried out is the one that legally corresponds to it.

Two modalities are established concerning remote working: remote working 2 full days a week or remote working every evening of the week.

Time flexibility

Several unpaid leave entitlements are established to meet special circumstances. These include leave for caregiving for family members (parents, spouse, children and siblings) with severe illness up to 60 working days per year with a minimum of 5 working days, leave for preparation and attendance of official study exams up to 5 working days per year, extension of maternity/paternity leave up to 10 working days per child and leave for international adoption, up to 30 working days. In the case of Brazil, an individual hours bank agreement has been established as a measure to make working hours more flexible.

Flexible remuneration

In Spain, 100% of the workforce can receive part of their salary in kind. Some options are childcare or restaurant vouchers, transport cards, health insurance, and training.

Staff from Alestis companies also have flexibility measures, although these have been defined in other terms, and the alignment of both policies is still pending. Alestis is EFR certified in recognition of its efforts to promote a work-life balance for its staff.

Workers directly employed in the labour force work in shifts, which vary according to the work center. In any case, they have the option to request a fixed work shift or modifications in their current shift to tend to personal matters.

[Ley_desconexión laboral] Aciturri has a Digital Disconnection Guideline, agreed upon with trade union representatives, while for Alestis, the digital disconnection Protocol is applicable, communicated to the workers' legal representatives. In both cases, the aim is to establish measures to ensure that staff can effectively enjoy their rest and holiday time while at the same time preserving their personal and family privacy, regardless of the working day they have established or whether the working day is carried out in the form of off-site work. These issues are not applicable in Brazil.