British Government aims to introduce four-day week

[Blackleaf]

Britain's Far Left Government wants to reduce the five day working week to a four day working week.

To receive their full pay, the Labour Government say employees would still have to work their full hours but compressed into a shorter working week - something some workplaces already do.

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.

Labour say that their proposals would make for more flexible working conditions.

Needless to say, the Tories are against Labour's plan....

 

[Ron in Regina]

Until I clicked into your thread, I assumed the British government was gonna make each day 42 hours long. It would be kind of awkward to get used to but the human species is nothing if not adaptable.

So mandatory 10hr days four days/week instead of 8hr days five days/week. What about the people that are already working 10hr days five days/week? Would they go to 12&1/2hr days four days per week?

{Back when I was crushing gravel, a normal shift was at least 12hrs long & five days/week minimum (we were paid well, with overtime after eight hours), and a 260 hour work month was normal….& more than 260 hours/month was available if you were interested, etc…I wonder how that would fit into a compressed four day work week with safety in mind?}

 

[Blackleaf]

Until I clicked into your thread, I assumed the British government was gonna make each day 42 hours long. It would be kind of awkward to get used to but the human species is nothing if not adaptable.

So mandatory 10hr days four days/week instead of 8hr days five days/week. What about the people that are already working 10hr days five days/week? Would they go to 12&1/2hr days four days per week?

{Back when I was crushing gravel, a normal shift was at least 12hrs long & five days/week minimum (we were paid well, with overtime after eight hours), and a 260 hour work month was normal….& more than 260 hours/month was available if you were interested, etc…I wonder how that would fit into a compressed four day work week with safety in mind?}

I'm happy the way it is now. I work as an FLT operator on several different trucks on the 12pm-8pm shift. There are two other shifts: 8am to 4pm and 10pm to 6am. I'm happy and content with the shift I work, even though it's now starting to get dark when I come out of work at 8pm. I don't give a shit. I get a lie in each day. But what I don't like doing is overtime. Whenever I get asked I say "NO!" So I think I would hate working extra hours each day.

 

[Ron in Regina]

I'm happy the way it is now. I work as an FLT operator on several different trucks on the 12pm-8pm shift. There are two other shifts: 8am to 4pm and 10pm to 6am. I'm happy and content with the shift I work, even though it's now starting to get dark when I come out of work at 8pm. I don't give a shit. I get a lie in each day. But what I don't like doing is overtime. Whenever I get asked I say "NO!" So I think I would hate working extra hours each day.

I’m getting old and tired, & what was the normal day of 12 hours/day just a decade ago…I wouldn’t look forward to it this point in my life. I’m good with 8hrs/day at at this point. I miss the money from a decade ago, but I’m good with just eight hours a day at this point.

Picture 12hrs/day five days/week & still having your weekends…with an average month being 4.333 weeks long…so without going to heroic measures, you’d have 168 regular hours & 92 hours of overtime at 1.5X your regular pay…month after month. Did that for about a decade. Just my overtime pay at that point (not even factoring in the 168hrs of regular pay) is about what I net now a decade later.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Well, it was Brits who introduced "Eight Days a Week," so I guess they can do it.

 

[Ron in Regina]

Well, it was Brits who introduced "Eight Days a Week," so I guess they can do it.

Eight Days a Week at 42 hours per day…

Until I clicked into your thread, I assumed the British government was gonna make each day 42 hours long.

…Would be a 336 hour week…with 26 weeks per year. It’s not so far fetched. It would still line up with a Solar annual cycle just as awkwardly as a 24hr/day 7day/week 52week/year one does…& still as uselessly non-aligned to the lunar cycles as our current calendars….you would just have two weeks/month.

Diurnal/nocturnal cycles will go out the window…but you could have a 5day work week (of 16 hours/day split into 2 chunks over the 42hr day, & the chunks do not have to be a of equal length) work week with a 3 day weekend every week that’s at least 126 hours long.

Daylight savings time concept could be just thrown away because nobody would notice the difference anyway. It would quickly lead to irritability and psychosis, & depending on the population, maybe nobody would notice?

When you take your 2 or 3 weeks of vacation annually, each week off would be at least 336 hours long so enough time to actually get somewhere & home again, with time in the middle to enjoy your time away while seeking mental balance in a sanitarium in an exotic location dreading going back to the insanity of a life based upon a 42 hour day. Naps/Siestas on top of the other sleep chunk/day would become normalized.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

In response, the Tories have vowed to return to the traditional British workweek of fourteen hours a day, six days a week for adults, and for six-year-olds greasing the machinery, until they get killed.

Figures the Nazi Communist unholy atheist Labour scum would want to change the five-day workweek, which is wholesome, traditional, loves the King, and is ordained by God!