Spain’s Sanchez Agrees to Cut Workweek in Deal With Far Left

Spain’s Socialist Party and the far-left group Sumar agreed to cut weekly working hours as part of talks to try to form a coalition government.

The workweek would drop to 37.5 hours from 40 hours at present, according to the plan unveiled by acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Labor Minister Yolanda Diaz in Madrid on Tuesday as they presented the coalition agreement between the premier’s Socialists and Diaz’s Sumar party.

Pedro Sanchez, left, and Yolanda Diaz during a news conference in Madrid, on Oct. 24.

Photographer: Manuaure Quintero/Bloomnberg

The coalition is still far from forming a government as Sanchez still needs the support of several other parties, most notably two secessionist Catalan groups. He has until ...