The European Work-Time Network is partnering with universities and researchers in co-ordinating this international conference which will bring together world-renowned researchers on the topic of working time reduction. The conference will be held in Porto, Portugal, 24th and 25th of September 2026. Submit an abstract… Read More »International Conference on Working Time Reduction – Call for papers
For this European Work-Time Network’s webinar, we are joined by Suryadeepto Nag who is a graduate researcher at the University of Lausanne to discuss how work-time reduction could impact the Global South. Suryadeepto Nag is a graduate researcher at the University of Lausanne working on… Read More »Webinar #19: What could work-time reductions mean for the rest of the world?
On November 20th 2025, The European Work-Time Network participated in a special event in the European Parliament. This public event, which was hosted by the EFA-Green Group in European Parliament and supported by the European Work-Time Network, brought together researchers, trade unions, civil society, and… Read More »2025 Event in European Parliament
In April 2024, the Mental Health Foundation in the UK joined the hundreds of organisations piloting a reduced working week. In the pilot, which lasted for one year, full-time hours dropped from 35 to 32 (and part-time hours proportionately) with no loss of pay. After… Read More »Mental Health Foundation: 32 hour pilot
“How a Jobs Guarantee Can Achieve Working Time Reduction” with Charles Stevenson, a doctoral candidate at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Charles works to formalise the policies that constitute the core proposals for a European social-ecological transformation and to outline how European institutions would need… Read More »Webinar #18: How a Jobs Guarantee Can Achieve Working Time Reduction
India Burgess and Ana B. Muñoz Ruiz presented research findings from their work in a recent ETUCLEX study exploring working time reduction through collective agreements around Europe.
For the European Work-Time Network’s fifth webinar of 2025, we are joined by Maritza López Novella, Damaris Castro and Brent Bleys to discuss the drivers and challenges of implementing collective working time reduction in Belgium. Upon request of the previous federal government, Ghent University and… Read More »Webinar #16: Belgium: the drivers and challenges of implementing collective working time reduction
For the European Work-Time Network’s third webinar of 2025, we are joined by the European Economic and Social Committee’s Rapporteur for the Opinion on “Working time, the efficiency of the economy and the wellbeing of workers”. The event was hosted online at 2pm Brussels time… Read More »Webinar #15 EESC Opinion: Working time, the efficiency of the economy and the well-being of workers
For the European Work-Time Network’s second webinar of 2025, we are joined by the a trade union organiser to talk about the successful achievement of working time reduction in the Scottish public sector. The event was hosted online at 1pm Brussels time on Wednesday 26th… Read More »Webinar #14 To 35 hours and beyond ! How the PCS union in Scotland won the shorter working week
The European Work-Time Network is hosting its first webinar of 2025,with researchers and practitioners to discuss the case of a 4-day week in a Portuguese nursery. Speakers: Inês Poeiras is the Executive Director at Caminhos da Infância. Francisca Carneiro is the President and Pedagogical Director… Read More »Webinar #13 A 4-day workweek in a nursery ? A case in Portugal