{"id":124400,"date":"2024-08-30T10:02:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T10:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/30\/employers-will-have-to-offer-four-day-week-under-new-plans\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T10:02:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T10:02:17","slug":"employers-will-have-to-offer-four-day-week-under-new-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/30\/employers-will-have-to-offer-four-day-week-under-new-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Employers will have to offer four-day week under new plans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Employers will have to offer flexible working hours – including a four-day week – to all workers under government plans.<\/p>\n

To receive their full pay, employees would still have to work their full hours but compressed into a shorter working week – something some workplaces already do.<\/p>\n

Currently, employees can request flexible hours as soon as they start at a company but employers are not legally obliged to agree.<\/p>\n

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The Labour government now wants to make it so employers have to offer flexible hours from day one, except where it is “not reasonably feasible”.<\/p>\n

It is understood Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is behind the move and wants to introduce legislation on it this autumn after consulting with unions and businesses.<\/p>\n

The government has denied employers will be forced to allow staff to work four-day weeks, or make employees work a four-day week.<\/p>\n

However, Conservative shadow business secretary Kevin Hollinrake said businesses were “petrified” by the plans.<\/p>\n

“Despite warning after warning from industry, Angela Rayner is pressing ahead with her French-style union laws that will make doing business more expensive in the UK,” Mr Hollinrake said.<\/p>\n

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A Department for Business and Trade spokesman said: “Any changes to employment legislation will be consulted on, working in partnership with business.<\/p>\n

“Our Make Work Pay plan is designed around increasing productivity and creating the right conditions for businesses to support sustained economic growth.<\/p>\n

“Many employers already provide good, family-friendly conditions for their workers because they know that doing so improves morale and retention.<\/p>\n

“We are working in close partnership with business and civil society to find the balance between improving workers’ rights while supporting the brilliant businesses that pay people’s wages.”<\/p>\n

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Last year, the largest trial of its kind<\/a><\/strong> tested how a four-day week would work, with 54 (89%) of the 61 companies involved still operating the policy a year later.<\/p>\n

The study by the Autonomy thinktank found every project manager and CEO consulted said the four-day week had a positive impact on their organisation.<\/p>\n

As part of Labour’s “New Deal for Working People”, the government has promised to ban zero-hour contracts, end “fire and rehire” practices and give workers the “right to switch off”.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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