This is how MAX, the government’s new algorithm for measuring overtime, works.

Robert Cantero

usually Make an impression what public services and government bodies meet outdated when making changes to their policy and the steps they take. in Basque countryfor example, it turns out call execute tax return on mac in 2022. it lack of adaptation to a changing environment, albeit with signs of concern for improvement, such as the entry of AI into the Spanish government, slow down modernization our country. Now, with the information we bring to you, it seems that some of the dawned light for workers.

The best organization of overtime work and an algorithm that will be on the side of the workers

We introduce you to MAX. algorithm. Well, we don’t know. This algorithm has been proposed Yolanda DiazMinister of Labor and Social Economy, who will oversee manage overtime which employees do outside of their working day, as you can read in tweet that we leave you under these lines. To put you in the situation, the specialist portal Noticias Trabajo claims that more 6.5 million hours of overtime every weekwithout paying 44% of them.

Spain performs 27 million overtime hours per month, half of which is unpaid. These are invalid numbers.

From Inspection, we are going to activate the algorithm that will monitor unpaid hours in order to continue progress in the reorganization of working hours. pic.twitter.com/XRFJXOnZAF

— Yolanda Diaz (@Yolanda)Diaz) May 27, 2022

Checking work was organization responsible for the formation algorithmto Struggle a phenomenon that makes many workers, especially female workers, endure Schedule widespread and, sometimes, without proper wage compensation. What are they looking for with it? technological progress is to be able to clarify unrecorded overtime work. For this variables will be used such as the number of employees, company turnover or sales volume.

Thanks to data what ITSSThe Labor and Social Security Inspectorate has at its disposal, as in the case of contracts workers, inspectors can evaluate all the information existing and use an algorithm watch even more closely for companies that seek to operate outside the law. Closer to a healthy labor market? Time will tell.