Employees could get greater powers to work their contracted hours over fewer days.

Full-time workers’ rights to ask for a four-day working week could be strengthened under government plans to increase flexible working.

Employees would still have to work their full hours to receive their full pay but could request to compress their contracted hours into a shorter working week, as first reported by the Daily Telegraph.

Since April, workers have already had the right to ask for flexible working as soon as they start a job but firms do not have to agree.

The government says it will not impose changes on staff or businesses, but the Conservatives say businesses are “petrified” about the plans.

Education Minister Baroness Jacqui Smith told LBC that “flexible working is actually good for productivity”.

    • Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I’m working 4x10s now. It isn’t any better. I usually do nothing on my day off because I’m exhausted. We can’t work more than 10 hours a day, so I’m no longer able to make up missed time except for my day off, and they didn’t wanna pay extra for holidays, so we swap back to 5x8s on holiday weeks, and the week before. Since they also wanted people in the shop every day, so, they did a rotating schedule because some people would complain if the holiday placement benefited someone else more.