After working for 10 years on 3 days a week and then another 5 doing 4 days a week the last few years of working a 5 day a week job has been the most miserable adjustment of my life. I’ve still not fully come to terms with how much of my time is ruined by working.
I’m a big four day week stan and I never expected to see it pushed during this parliament. Obviously the end result is going to be heavily dependent on what they end up implementing, but this is potentially huge for many, many people.
Currently, employees have the legal right to request flexible working, but there is no obligation on companies to agree. That balance of power is to be shifted, with companies instead legally obliged to offer flexible working from day one except where it is “not reasonably feasible”.
Seems this isn’t about a 4 day week specifically, but about employers being required to give their reasons when they reject flexible working requests. The telegraph is just using it as an example of something an employee could request.
Reported as misleading headline. It’s not actual policy.
Not much we can do as it isn’t editorialised by OP, that’s all on the Torygraph.
We may want a list of sites for this community that are either black or grey listed but we also don’t want to overly restrict the sources used too much as you’d be in danger of groupthink and enforcing a more left-leaning mindset that doesn’t properly reflect the range of opinion amongst general British voters.
So I would black-list the Sun and Star, grey-list the Mail, Express and Telegraph as sources to be used sparingly. We’d probably also want to grey-list sources like The Morning Star, etc - we have !uk_leftists@feddit.uk for that kind of thing.
the amount of people just reading the headline and not understanding this isnt an actual 4 day work week, just 10 hour work days is funny.
its getting reposted all over the internet as ‘labour introduces 4 day work week!’ when they have literally just changed the wording on some things that where already like that; employers already had to consider any compressed 4 day work week request in the UK before this.
Its only a 4 day work week if they reduce the hours!
this is just useless piss spin that means absolutely nothing
the ‘four day work week’ was already a thing you could ask for, in the sense its your normal work hours compressed into 4 days, not an extra day off.
literally 80% of my team where already doing this with the conservatives in power, they have just changed the wording on it; complete spin.
Apparently it’s more than just wording, it requires the employer to give a valid reason for refusing.
