In 2012, the government implemented sweeping labor-market reforms to increase companies’ internal flexibility (making it easier to dismiss permanent workers and facilitating wage moderation), and introduced a model for reducing workers’ hours. But such changes take effect slowly, and often not until the recovery phase.
2012年，西班牙政府实施了大规模的劳动力市场改革以增加企业的内部灵活度（使其更容易解雇长期雇员并促进工资调整），并引进了一个减少雇员工时的模型。但这些改革收效缓慢，往往在复苏逐步实现时才能体现。