4 day work week- Labour promises it, what on Earth?
John McDonnell has promised a 32 hour work week within 10 years, what on Earth is going on?
This would reduce the work week to around a 4 day work week. This does not mean another day off, just less hours per day.
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The shadow chancellor is adamant that this will come without a “loss of pay.” This comes as a shock. The UK average work week is 42.5 hours, compared to the EU average- 41.2 hours.
McDonnell told Labour’s annual conference in Brighton “We should work to live, not love to work. As society gets richer, we should be able to rest more.”
He went on to say “But in recent decades progress has stalled. Since the 1980s the link between increasing productivity and expanding free time has been broken. It's tim...
