Reducing the number of working days is no longer in the requirements of unions. Chancellor wants Germans to “work more and more efficiently.”
A 4 -day week It is a “dream” for some workers, a realistic project for others, and in other companies is already being implemented.
“We need rest, people are desperate for this idea,” commented economist Pedro Gomes, in Zap.
The author of Friday is the new Saturday. As a four -day working week can save the economyremembers that the idea has even emerged in 1956 and ensures that there is greater productivity in companies with weeks of 4 days.
Later, a report showed that workers, when working less time, saw improvements in their mental health, were more time with the family. THE productivity is that it remains a doubt.
About two weeks ago, Friedrich Merz made his first statement as a chancellor. He encouraged the Germans to make a “tremendous effort” to make Germany more competitive: “We need to work harder and, above all, more efficiently in this country.”
And approached the 4 -day week: “With a 4 -day week and balance between personal and professional life, we will not be able to maintain the prosperity of this country”.
This phrase was a “Truth uncomfortable, but necessary”reacts expert Thomas Sigmund, no.
The 40 -hour week will be the measure implemented.
Os unions They are already push of this system. IG Metall – the world’s largest metallurgical union and integrated into Germany’s largest trade union center (DGB) – failed to put the 4 -day week on its requirement list.
“A week of 4 days with total remuneration is not on the list of claims of the union. But that doesn’t make it less sensible, ”commented guardian Christiane Benner, in the newspaper.
This removal from the union is to move away from “a mito work“Handelsblatt continues. Because this” favorite project of the new world of work “goes through” working less and winning the same. “
The German Union will be “recognizing what has long been considered unpopular: Working less and earning the same – won’t work in the long run. ”
Nuno Teixeira da Silva, Zap //
