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Four-day work week across Europe. The appetite for a four-day work week in France has been picking up for years—at the turn of the century, it introduced a 35-hour week.
Even though the standard hours worked in a week has been lowered to 35, some occupations demand more. The French bar association (CNB) says that 44% of lawyers in the country worked 55 hours or more a week in 2008. Part-time workers work an average 23.3 hours a week in France, compared to the European average of 20.1 hours. [3]
The five-day workweek is a cultural norm; the result of early 1900s union advocacy to reduce the six-day workweek, which led to the invention of the weekend.In the early 20th century, when the average work week in developed nations was reduced from around 60 to 40 hours, it was expected that further decreases would occur over time.
Between 1936 and 1938 the Popular Front enacted a law mandating 12 days (2 weeks) each year of paid vacation for workers, and the Matignon Accords (1936). This established the right to organise a union, to bargain collectively, a legal right to strike , and was followed by enactments which limited the work week to 40 hours, excluding overtime ...
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., held a hearing Thursday on a bill he introduced to reduce the standard U.S. workweek to four days without loss of pay.. The bill, titled the “Thirty-Two Hour Work ...
A four-day week is imminent, hedge fund titan and billionaire New York Mets owner Steve Cohen told Andrew Ross Sorkin on Wednesday during a CNBC Squawk Box appearance.. It’s not because workers ...
China began the two-day Saturday–Sunday weekend on May 1, 1995. Most government employees work 5 days a week (including officials and industrial management). Most manufacturing facilities operate on Saturdays as well. However, most shops, museums, cinemas, and commercial establishments open on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays.
Earlier this month, an acrylic fiber producer became the first major company in Turkey to permanently adopt a 4-day work week, leading to an 85% rise in work-life balance and employee engagement.