Employees could get greater powers to work their contracted hours over fewer days.

Full-time workers’ rights to ask for a four-day working week could be strengthened under government plans to increase flexible working.

Employees would still have to work their full hours to receive their full pay but could request to compress their contracted hours into a shorter working week, as first reported by the Daily Telegraph.

Since April, workers have already had the right to ask for flexible working as soon as they start a job but firms do not have to agree.

The government says it will not impose changes on staff or businesses, but the Conservatives say businesses are “petrified” about the plans.

Education Minister Baroness Jacqui Smith told LBC that “flexible working is actually good for productivity”.

  • circuitfarmerEnglish
    16•17 days ago

    Needs to be 32 hours. Just shoving the same 40 hours into 4 days is not actually an improvement.

    Are 4 10s better? It depends on who you ask. On the dark side, one could argue that it does more to normalize a 10-hour day than to “shorten” the work week.

    You won’t see the same kinds of varied responses if it were a 32-hour week with no pay reduction, though.