The new amendment would require a ‘Working Time Council’ to be formed, which would ‘make recommendations on how a transition could be made from a five-day working week to a four-day working week with no impact on pay’.
Here’s why a group of Labour MPs think we should work just four days a week A group of Labour MPs have called for a four-day working week to be included in the government’s flagship Employment Rights Bill.
The government has previously said the Bill would strengthen workers’ rights to ‘request flexibility in their working pattern’ by compressing their hours, though employers would not be mandated to accept.
At the end of last month, the 4 Day Week Foundation revealed 200 companies across the UK had adopted the new approach to the work calendar, with more than 5,000 workers getting a three-day weekend.
Labour’s Rachael Maskell, who is backing the amendment, told Metro: ‘The UK’s productivity has consistently been low, and yet where a four-day week has been instituted in studies, it shows that there is no detriment to productivity, and in fact it can improve.’.
