First day with the air at 27 degrees: "What if it shows? The workers do not stop moving and sweat"

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, one week after the publication in the Official State Gazette of the Royal Decree-Law on savings, energy efficiency and the reduction of energy dependence on natural gas, and despite the opposition of the Community of Madrid, measures have come into force.

It's official: the lights in shop windows and public buildings that are unoccupied have to be turned off after 10 p.m.

During the day, the air must be at 27 degrees in public buildings, department stores, transport infrastructures (airports and train and bus stations) and shops.

One of the premises of a large chain of clothing stores in Madrid's Gran Vía, which does not want to be identified, has been since Monday with the thermostat

and the entrance doors -for the first time since they opened in this location- they are closed.

Your workers appreciate it.

"The air was so low that we were dying of cold," confesses the person in charge of him, who does not want his name to be known either.

The doors did not close at any time of the day, and according to this employee,

and "which made us sweat in winter and cold in summer."

The air is not controlled by them, it is automated "from above", in these textile giants it is controlled by the central office.

The same does not happen in all the Gran Vía franchises, where most of them have their entrance wide open.

Some small businesses do not have their doors closed either.

Five minutes from Gran Vía is Diez, a small shoe store that has also had 27-degree air since Monday.

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His manager resents: "What if it shows? We go down and up, the workers don't stop moving and they sweat."

However, from the Association of Merchants and Industrialists of Sol, Preciados, Carmen, Arenal and Adyacentes, they do not think the same.

"It is not necessary for the Government to tell us anything,

no small business has ever left its window on after 10 at night or the air at 19 degrees," he stresses. its spokesperson, Paloma de Marco.

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