2024-05-28 02:18:45
The Polish Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs is analyzing two proposals for shortening the working week, Minister Agnieszka Dziemianowiczová-Bonková introduced based on TVN 24 tv. The primary possibility is to shorten the working week to 35 hours, the second is to introduce free Fridays.
“Greater than 100 years have handed because the introduction of eight-hour working hours, free Saturdays have been launched virtually half a century in the past. Quite a bit has modified since then, so an extra step could possibly be taken or no less than a dialogue on this matter could possibly be began,” stated the minister. “My want and plan is to shorten the working week. How? That is being mentioned,” she added.
Based on the consultant of the Left in Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s authorities, Polish society is among the hardest hit in Europe. Based on her, shortening the working week would profit not solely workers, but in addition employers. “It isn’t true in any respect that the extra hours an worker spends at work, the higher the outcomes. Burnout, stress and fatigue cut back productiveness. A rested employee is extra artistic and extra motivated,” she argued.
Based on her, the ministry can also be contemplating options launched in different international locations, corresponding to France and Germany. He intends to current the outcomes of the analyzes by the tip of the yr.
The minister admitted that interviews with workers and employers present that it will be simpler to introduce a four-day work week whereas sustaining the eight-hour working time. “Possibly free Fridays could possibly be launched like free Saturdays was once – first two Fridays a month can be free, then all,” she added.