100 years since the introduction of the 5-day week, the European Work-Time Network reflects on what’s next. Interested in fighting for working time reduction? Join our movement. Learn more about the 100-year anniversary of the 5-day week at the 4-Day Week Foundation. Video transcript: One… Read More »It’s time for change: 100 years since the 5-day week
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 many individuals and organisations are advocating the topic of working time reduction in your country and do you form partnerships? Within the UK, the movement around working time reduction is small but rapidly growing. The UK Green Party has put a four-day week in… Read More »Aidan Harper, New Economics Foundation: The four-day week should be one of the central aims of the union movement in the 21st Century.
How many individuals and organisations are advocating the topic of working time reduction in your country and do you form partnerships? There are no other political organizations working for work time reduction apart from ours. At least not as progressive as us in the left… Read More »Daniel Bernmar, Vänsterpartiet: Reducing work hours is a feminist reform
How many individuals and organisations are advocating the topic of working time reduction in your country and do you form partnerships? CCOO (Comisiones Obreras/Worker’s Commissions) always had the 35-hour week for the goal. By 2012, the public sector had a 35-hour workweek. The government extended… Read More »Ana Oller, CCOO: First, we want to restore what has been wrested by the crisis
How many individuals and organisations are advocating the topic of working time reduction in your country and do you form partnerships? I am employed at the Government Office for Macroeconomic Analysis and Development as a social policy analyst. I have made a shorter analysis of… Read More »Valerija Korošec, researcher: Shorter working time as complementary social policy to UBI
How many individuals and organisations are advocating the topic of working time reduction in your country and do you form partnerships? I am a member of the political party Rödt and the Action Committee for Six hours day in Norway. A lot of organizations in… Read More »Gerd Inger Polden, Rødt: Let`s celebrate 100th anniversary of 8 hours working day by working 6 hours
How many individuals and organisations are advocating the topic of working time reduction in your country and do you form partnerships? The idea is introduced by the FNV, the largest trade union in the Netherlands, with 900.000 members. It is advocated by other trade unions,… Read More »Sam Groen, FNV: Older workers should be able to reduce work to make place for younger workers
Who is “on board”: how many individuals and/or organisations are advocating the topic in your country and do you form partnerships? The idea of the reduced working hours is very much connected to combat unemployment. The talk now is about what governments can do to… Read More »Mátyás Benyik, Attac Hungary: This will help solve a lot of connected problems
How many individuals and organisations are advocating the topic of working time reduction in your country and do you form partnerships? There is no politically relevant movement or initiative for general working-time reductions in Germany. Of course there are individuals and work groups (like the… Read More »Steffen Lehndorff, researcher: Work length should be an individual choice