Resumen de A balance between our personal and professional life in Spain:: employees' right to a flexible workday

Elisabet Calzada i Oliveras

• The Spanish Parliament is and has been concerned about equality at the workplace and the right of employees to reconcile work and family. Even though there are provisions within the Spanish Workers� Statute that aim at providing for such reconciliation, they have proved to be inefficient tools to achieve a better balance. This working paper analyses and evaluates the existing regulation in Spain on this subject. From an equality-based perspective, the article tries to identify the legal source of this inefficiency (mainly, collective negotiation). In the second part, the US system is analyzed for the search of a solution. Last, the paper proposes the recognition of an explicit, self-executing right to reconcile work and family for employees.